Quotes About Directness

The tenets of Jeet Kune Do are simplicity, directness, and freedom, and it's meant to be a style that is efficient and non-telegraphic; you can't see it coming.

The healing process kicks into gear with with the words This is what you did to me. That statement is not gentle or polite; it's absolutely direct. In fact, I know that seeing it might feel like a punch in the stomach. I deliberately removed the distancing veil of objectivity from the words This is what you did by adding 'to me'.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

I'm a plain man, I am; no nonsense about me.' And no manners, grace, or generosity, either.

Please just say what you mean. It is exhausting trying to determine what everyone is saying to me when it has nothing to do with the words that are actually coming out of their mouths.

Sometimes the easiest way is just to say it

I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

I don't indulge in double meaning humor.

I like being to the point. It is not my nature to talk too much or indulge in loose talk. I like being brief, and beyond a certain point, I have nothing to say.

Straight talking and going on your instincts was important when I grew up. And being funny.

It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Get off my phone! What's on your mind, pal!

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

Politeness and diplomacy are responsible for more suffering and death than all the crimes of passion in history. Fuck politeness. Fuck diplomacy. Tell the truth.

We are against politeness as a substitute for the truth because that politeness kills. Politeness and diplomacy are responsible for more suffering and death than all the crimes of passion in history. Fuck politeness. Fuck diplomacy. Tell the truth.

You strike through to the heart of the matter

The Best Way to Chew Someone Out. When he absolutely has to take someone to the woodshed, Harvey prefers to hand them

I call a spade a spade. If you're doing things the wrong way, I'm going to let you know regardless if you're the max-contract guy on the team or the two-way guy on the team.

I'm a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.

I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.