Quotes About Directness

Donald Trump was straight up. I mean, he told me what he thought of me, and that's cool. I might not like it, but at least he did it to my face. That's what Montanans like. They like people to be square with them.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

Winston Churchill said, "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then a third time—a tremendous whack.

I've never liked euphemisms. I don't say "passed away." I say "dead.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

Troy Deeney is a good guy, he's one of the nicest guys I've played with. He says it how it is. He's not a guy that beats around the bush. If he's not happy, he says what he feels.

The dark side is honest. The dark side is direct. It is the knife in the front rather than one stuck in your back. The dark side is self-interested, yes, but it is about extending that interest outward. To yourself, but then beyond yourself.

She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness.

2S+1Q. Every ask needs to be two sentences and one question. The directness of this approach is key to your success. Remember that most asks are overasked and overexplained, and quite simply, there is just way too much discussion on your part so that you leave the person wondering, "Now just what is it that I'm supposed to be thinking about?

Don't say "freaking", Russ. If you have to use the "F" word, go for the gold.

Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.

Evil loves complications, labyrinths and byzantine conspiracy theories. Ernest Holmes wrote: The truth is simple, direct and always self-evident.

A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes.

Graham spoke plainly and directly. Convinced that the average person had a working vocabulary of six hundred words, he made a point to stick with common words and short sentences. Though he never put it exactly this way, he instinctively grasped the import of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's recipe for rabbit stew: first "you have to catch the rabbit.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

The telegraphic style banishes all the forms of politeness

Some people hate me because I'm real to myself. I don't have to pretend to be something I'm not. I won't put up with foolish games and I don't talk crap behind someone's back , I deliver it to there face .