Quotes About Directness

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

Kiyoaki's pride was hurt. Satoko, with a boldness that might be construed as unfeminine, had pointed out the dog's corpse, ignoring its ominous implications. She had adopted a suitably pleasant and straightforward tone of voice, which bore witness to her elegant upbringing; she had the freshness of ripe fruit in a crystal bowl. Kiyoaki was ashamed of his hesitation, and felt cowed by Satoko's capacity for directness.

The truth is usually inappropriate.

I don't pretend; I'm honest. Sometimes that causes a problem; I always say what I think.

I define myself by efficiency and straightforwardness.

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose. Clean code never obscures the designer's intent but rather is full of crisp abstractions and straightforward lines of control. - Grady Booch author of Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

the KISS principle—Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Keep It Super Simple)

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

Aunt Elizabeth was one of those people who never do understand anything unless it is told them in plain language and hammered into their heads. And thy they understand it only with their brains and not with their hearts.

Quit drawing out the story

A lot of people take too much directness as rudeness, especially from a woman.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Facts speak plainer than words

Why the coy drama? I want him and he wants me; who needs subtext?

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I hate when people say that they have something to tell you and they don't just say it.

Laurel was no bullshit. She didn't say things she didn't mean.

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers