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Quotes About Directness

Tell me everything at once.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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 hit it a third time.
~ Andrew Roberts
They say the shortest way to a man's heart is through his sternum, after all.
~ Andrew Rowe
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'
~ Pink
Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
~ Zayn Malik
Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
~ Zayn Malik
One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.
~ Amy Irving
I expect if people have had a problem with me or my attitude, then they come and take it directly with me, face to face.
~ Ada Hegerberg
The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.
~ Nancy Dubuc
I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
~ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
~ Solange Knowles
I am not a diplomatic person.
~ Sanjeeda Sheikh
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
~ Chris Abani
I have always liked to speak to people very directly.
~ Walter Mercado
I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.
~ Johann Johannsson
I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.
~ Amanda Nunes
I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
~ Simon Baker
Tanushree is very honest - if she dislikes something she will say it to your face whether you like it or not.
~ Ishita Dutta
If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
~ Karl Malone
Fans, and people in general, look to people to take certain things on, and I'm a guy you can take at face value. I speak my mind.
~ Darren Till
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
A lot of people called me fake, but I always said what came to my mind.
~ Shehnaaz Gill
Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.
~ Anthony Scaramucci