Quotes About Direct

The ability to focus the mind is the ability to not let it run away with you. It does not mean not to think—but to be the one who directs your own thinking.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

Furtive behavior is always noticed and, when noticed, inevitably raises an alarm. On the other hand, a man acting boldly and directly is viewed as honest and harmless, is not remarked upon, and is later forgotten altogether.

I meant no offense," he added a moment later, in a softer tone. "I was surprised." I looked at him directly. I was too tired to be tactful. "And a bit jealous, perhaps?

Whether I act or direct I ensure that there is a social message attached.

It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.

things directly through our five senses. The other is the process of intuition, which is indirect perception by way of the unconscious, incorporating ideas or associations that the unconscious tacks on to perceptions coming from outside.

You have such a lovely, direct nature. You know the one where you just say whatever's on your mind, with as many cuss words as you can cram into a sentence, and forget that people around you might find your potty mouth offensive?

You can't hammer a nail over the Internet.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.

We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software directly to them; taking payment through Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and other options; and not having a store take 30 percent.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

I'm a polite person. I'll tell you excuse me and shut the f*ck up in the same sentence.

Control, edit and distill.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

We played a different style under Mark Sampson, and all credit to him, because we did really well. It worked for us; we were quite direct, but we were successful at doing it.