Direct Quotes

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

Of all the entrepreneurial opportunities available today, one of the most important is direct selling, also called network marketing.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.