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Quotes About Direct

Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
~ Noam Chomsky
Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of taking care of my job, which is covering first base, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and direct traffic.
~ Gerrit Cole
It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.
~ David Robinson
PM Modi's belief in Direct Benefit Transfer was force enough to give the necessary impetus for its efficient implementation.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
~ Spinoza
Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
In their music the Minutemen told stories, postulated theories, held debates, aired grievances, and celebrated victories—and did it in a direct, intimate way that flattered the intelligence as well as the soul.
~ Michael Azerrad
Bag the hands," Bosch said to him
~ Michael Connelly
Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perceive ourselves. We want to know the meaning of an experience before we have it. We become frightened of direct experience, and we will go to elaborate lengths to avoid it.
~ Michael Crichton
Science has trouble with this interpretation, however, because, whatever the perception is, it can't be verified by its customary tools. It's an anecdotal report, in effect, and so has no value. Science has little interest in, and tolerance for, the testimony of the individual; in this it is, curiously, much like an organized religion, which has a big problem crediting direct revelation too. But it's worth pointing out that there are cases
~ Michael Pollan
You will see that I am a direct and sincere person, I don't beat around the bush and I will address something if I see it.
~ Quique Setien
I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two.
~ Scott Adsit
But I started out as a comedian doing sketch work where you get to write, produce and direct your own stuff.
~ Sam Seder
When you love what's deeper, your response is direct. There won't be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.
~ John de Ruiter
I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.
~ Kevin D. Williamson
Earlier, I mentioned a related technology called direct air capture. It involves exactly what the name implies: capturing carbon directly from the air. DAC is more flexible than point capture, because you can do it anywhere. And in all likelihood, it'll be a crucial part of getting to zero; one study by the National Academy of Sciences found that we'll need to be removing about 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year by mid-century and about 20 billion by the end of the century.
~ Bill Gates
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us — if at all — not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
~ T.S. Eliot
What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in the direct relation between the thing and man, while, inversely, its value is realized only in exchange, i.e., in a social process. Who
~ Juliet Schor
Wisdom is an absolute positivism which regards only what can be grasped by direct experience as real, and everything else as unreal, abstract, and illusory.
~ Julius Evola
I am not intimidating, I am forthright!
~ Deborah Meaden
Australia, most of the filmmakers there write a film and they direct it. There's a lot of writer/directors there, because nobody wants to write a script and then let it go when they've had that much of a personal investment to it, because you're not getting paid huge amounts of money in Australia to direct.
~ Leigh Whannell