Direct Quotes

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

I want to direct $10 billion to create a make it in America partnership to support American manufacturing.

Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.

I don't direct the plays of others.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

I mean, "The Jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it's rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work.