Quotes About Directness

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

If you want to say no, be firm and direct.

The directness of his stare suggests her every word matters to him, and she feels that she has his sincere sympathy rather than unwanted pity.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

By walking I found out Where I was going. By intensely hating, how to love. By loving, whom and what to love. By grieving, how to laugh from the belly. Out of infirmity, I have built strength. Out of untruth, truth. From hypocrisy, I wove directness. Almost now I know who I am. Almost I have the boldness to be that man. Another step And I shall be where I started from.

No author who has ever lived has shown such powers of insight into the variety of life - the differences, the contrasts, the collisions of persons and things and situations, each apprehended in its absolute uniqueness and conveyed with a degree of directness and a precision of concrete imagery to be found in no other writer

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

Talk to boys in their language—in a way that honors their pride and their masculinity. Be direct with them; use them as consultants and problem solvers.

As an interviewer, I don't think you can dance around the subject. Certainly the interview subject knows if you are dancing, and the viewer knows that you are dancing. If it's a hard question, you just have to ask it.

The short answer is 'No.' The long answer is 'Hell No.'

If you have a problem with me, tell me. Not everybody else!

My back is not a voicemail. If you have something to say, say it to my face.

I have a low tolerance for bullsh.. today. Pleaseeeeee don't come at me with any.

I think a lot of people that don't know me would say that I lead by example, which I feel like I do. But at the same time, I'm someone who's always been very up-front with people. I'm gonna get straight to the point.

If I don't like a thing, I will say it out loud then and there.

In China, people only talk to make a point. You ask someone to go to lunch. They say yes or they say no.

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Don't be so polite. If there's one thing I can't abide, it's politeness.

Don't Be Passive-Aggressive

Calls to action like "Learn more," "Find out about us," "Curious?" or "Our Process" are weak and confusing.

It has been always a rule with me to go straight at everything. I think the best diplomacy is directness, and that the truest caution lies in courage.

I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I'm suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to overcome me, to finesse me like a bridge player. Or to seduce me.