Quotes About Directness

I think everyone likes direct. They might not like it in a specific moment, but... I'm always gonna push 'em to do more. That's just me. I try to be truthful and honest and transparent, and if they don't like it, then so be it. And that's OK. I think they respect that and they know where I stand.

I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Cut the crap and tell me what color panties you're wearing.

When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head," he continued. "Your haircut is really, really bad, I'm probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I'm dying to fuck you." He glanced at her. "That honest enough for you?

I do not take orders from you, Overlander. Let us be clear on this from the start.

As Tayna would say if I wanted to hear from an ass i would have fart.

Sandra to Christie on Matt: So he's been a meanie today has he. The boy's got the subtlety of a brick to the head. I do apologize.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

I call a spade a spade.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

Okay. And what are your pronouns, Jeri?" Jeri found it refreshing that she asked so directly.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles.

Don't butter me, Babe.

They do not practise the art of conversation in quite the way the English do, but are straightforward to the point of bluntness.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered. This