Quotes About Directness

Lots of people tell me I am straightforward.

I am a serious and straightforward person.

I like trying to keep as honest and straightforward of a point of view in our kitchen as possible.

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell them my thoughts. Language is never a problem.

Working with Salman, I have observed that he is a very straightforward person.

If you want to be this brutally honest in the U.S., I suggest first reading my friend A.J. Jacobs's Esquire piece titled "I Think You're Fat.

Tell people what you want, not what you don't want, and keep it simple.

If I do get offended, you'll probably know about it because I'm very honest and I don't hold back when it comes to speaking my mind.

I've always been a bit old-fashioned and thought the best way to sort things out was man to man.

Joanna is a strong female character, and I love playing her. But one of the things about her is that she always says exactly what she's thinking.

If someone comes onto 'Dragons' Den' and annoys me, I'm going to tell them exactly what I think.

I've always been a straight shooter and an open book. It's how I've chosen to live my life.

In general, I just try to make the people that I'm shooting feel like they are in good hands. I'm open-minded, and I invite them to be open-minded to the process. I'm direct and curious.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

You see', said Ukridge, ' I dislike subterfuge'.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable." Master

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

The cultural difference between selecting your food and stabbing it is symbolic of the quiet simplicity of the East versus the blunt directness of the West. Chopsticks are a little tricky to master at first, but once you do, it can eventually seem a bit crude that you used to poke and prod at your meal with forks and knives.

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.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.