Quotes About Directness

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

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

Everyone is a psychoanalyst, it would seem, and they try to dig beneath words. I say what I mean. There is no subtext. I

Sometimes the easy way out is the right way in.

In general, simple is better than complex, explicit is better than implicit, and full statements are better than arcane expressions.

In the Python way of thinking, explicit is better than implicit, and simple is better than complex.1

Now listen, guuuyyysss! Come on guys. Let's all, come on, let's be simple about this.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

If we wish for a compassionate response from others, it is self-defeating to express our needs by interpreting or diagnosing their behavior. Instead, the more directly we can connect our feelings to our own needs, the easier it is for others to respond to us compassionately.

That was the problem with the whole goddamn world; nobody had balls enough to call a spade a spade. Dead was dead; it was a hell of a lot more permanent than a milquetoast "not being here.

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

There was a strength in Nancy, a directness that wouldn't tolerate evasion.

thought, for all her lightness, she was studying me. Not subtly. She was never a subtle woman; but with the semi-direct frankness with which children survey strange people.

The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.

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

What youve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just dont wuss out.

Though the Finns' taciturnity may work among themselves, problems arise when they travel or have to work with foreigners. The men, in particular, can be simply too frank, too direct, sometimes to the point of rudeness. They find it especially challenging to engage in the social lubricant of small talk, something even Norwegians can manage if they put their minds to it.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.