Quotes About Directness

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Er trat ruhig und gelassen auf den Tisch zu. Ohne sich vorzustellen - >Ihr wißt, wer ich bin, und wer ihr seid, interessiert mich nicht<, schien diese Unhöflichkeit zu besagen -, begann er mit fachmännischer Trockenheit die sachlichen Anordnungen.

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

You're going to get what I think is the truth, and it's going to be raw.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

I liked Benitez's sincerity. I identified with him because he is a very direct and honest person.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

I love insult, it's always honest.

Directo al grano, siempre lo digo. La vida es demasiado corta para gastarla en tonterías.

You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.