Direct Quotes

Use the mind to direct the chi and the chi to mobilise the body.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

And I certainly intend to direct someday.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

Direct threats require decisive action.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.