Quotes About Direct

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

President Trump is bringing a very candid - and direct type of leadership to the White House. And in conversations with leaders around the world, frankly, I think they all find it very refreshing.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!

We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from a client's life.

Mueller forfeited the opportunity to speak clearly and directly about Trump's crimes, and Barr filled the void with his sycophantic, and high-volume, exoneration.

El anarquismo [...] defiende la acción directa, el rechazo y la resistencia frente a las leyes y las restricciones económicas, sociales y morales. Aunque el rechazo y la resistencia sean ilegales. En ello descansa la salvación del ser humano. Todo lo ilegal necesita de la integridad, de la independencia y el coraje.

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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can't be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

Reason must be deployed not to reduce compassion and affection, but to direct them effectively, and to avoid throwing oneself away on unworthy objects of love.

Unix never says "please."

Transitive dependencies are a violation of the general principle that software entities should not depend on things they don't directly use. We'll encounter that principle again when we talk about the Interface Segregation Principle and the Common Reuse Principle.

Apparently the Irish Fey answered direct questions, but what you didn't ask, they didn't answer, even if logically it was connected.

The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.