Direct quotes

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
-- A. R. Ammons

#Experience #Opinion #Direct

I would like to direct.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Direct

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
-- Adam Brody

#Direct

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
-- Alexis Bledel

#Writing #Direct

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.
-- Andy Serkis

#Writing #Long #Direct

It was the straying that found the path direct.
-- Austin Osman Spare

#Path #Found #Direct

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Reality #Direct

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
-- Ben Nicholson

#Cutting #Boards #Direct

The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.
-- Bernard Lietaer

#Fighting #Order #Direct

ABBA was a direct influence on me.
-- Beth Ditto

#Influence #Direct

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
-- Bev Perdue

#Speak #Willing #Direct

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

#Inspirational #Proportion #Direct

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.
-- Brian Tracy

#Self Esteem #Discipline #Direct

And I certainly intend to direct someday.
-- Casper Van Dien

#Someday #Direct

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Classic #Said #Direct

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
-- Charles Darwin

#Nature #Lying #Direct

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.
-- Colin S. Gray

#War #Behaviour #Direct

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.
-- Corbin Bernsen

#Produce #Direct

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.
-- Corey Haim

#Goal #Want #Direct

You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.
-- Courteney Cox

#Heart #Direct

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Order #Giving #Direct

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

#Censorship #Domain #Direct

I like to direct for the big screen.
-- David Boreanaz

#Bigs #Direct

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

#Acting #Action #Direct

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
-- David Wenham

#Would Be #Produce #Direct

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.
-- Devon Sawa

#Want #Working It #Direct

No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Kind #Schemes #Direct

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
-- Douglas Horton

#Never Change #Proportion #Direct

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Threat #Direct

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Strength #Heart #Direct

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
-- Earl Nightingale

#Ratios #Rewards #Direct

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of
-- Ed Harris

#Done #Proud #Direct

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
-- Eli Roth

#People #Insult #Direct

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.
-- Elizabeth Banks

#Spoiled #Direct

I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
-- Federico Fellini

#Film #Direct

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
-- Frank Langella

#Writing #Produce #Direct

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.
-- Frank Whaley

#Writing #Trying #Direct

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth,
-- Gabrielle

#Direct

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.
-- Gedde Watanabe

#Want #Direct

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
-- George S. Patton

#War #Simple #Direct

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.
-- Graham Phillips

#Able #Direct

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Aim #Direct

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.
-- J. Ogden Armour

#Brain #Direct

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

#Writing #Intention #Direct

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.
-- Jesse McCartney

#Helping #Produce #Direct

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me
-- Joey Lauren Adams

#People #Want #Direct

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.
-- John Carradine

#Directors #Let Me #Direct

If you want to direct, you've got to work.
-- John Goodman

#Want #Direct

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photographer #Tempted #Direct

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
-- John Travolta

#Feelings #One Day #Direct

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
-- John W. Snow

#Investment #Results #Direct

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

#Direct

I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.
-- Julie Delpy

#People #Be Good #Direct

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob
-- Justina Chen

#Sometimes #Jacob #Direct

I've always been a direct guy.
-- Kool Keith

#Guy #Direct

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.
-- Kris Carr

#Mind #Want #Direct

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.
-- Kyle Chandler

#Hard Work #Want #Direct

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
-- Laurette Taylor

#Connections #Instinct #Direct

I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.
-- Liana Liberato

#Thinking #Discipline #Direct

If you can't be direct, why be?
-- Lily Tomlin

#Direct

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
-- Louis Pasteur

#Mind #Disorder #Direct

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.
-- M. Night Shyamalan

#Pilots #Shows #Direct

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.
-- Mark Epstein

#Warts #Term #Direct

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Empathy #Direct

I want to write, act, and direct!
-- Megyn Price

#Writing #Want #Direct

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.
-- Melissa Joan Hart

#Said #Direct

You have to be insane to direct.
-- Morris Chestnut

#Insane #Direct

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
-- Nick Lowe

#Song #Direct

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
-- Norman Tebbit

#Parliament #Direct #Mislead

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
-- Orrin Woodward

#People #Indirect #Direct

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
-- Peter Jackson

#Childhood #Want #Direct

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.
-- Phil Foglio

#Action #Direct

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.
-- Rob Reiner

#Confusing #Kind #Direct

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
-- Robert Bresson

#Oneself #Direct

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Science #Direct

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.
-- Rudy Giuliani

#Past #America #Direct

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
-- Simon Baker

#Direct #Disagree

I'd like to direct more operas.
-- Simon Callow

#Opera #Direct

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
-- Simon Sinek

#Impact #Feels #Direct

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
-- Stanley Smith Stevens

#Method #Magnitude #Direct

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.
-- Stephen Chbosky

#Writing #Process #Direct

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.
-- Stephen Dorff

#Plans #Direct

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

#Essence #Groups #Direct

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
-- Steven Spielberg

#Sunday #Produce #Direct

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Writing #Way #Direct

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.
-- T. Harv Eker

#Proportion #Marketplace #Direct

Every actor wants to direct.
-- Theodore Bikel

#Want #Actors #Direct

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

#Fashion #Morning #Direct

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.
-- Thom Gunn

#Holy #Grass #Direct

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
-- Tom Skerritt

#Trying #Materials #Direct

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
-- Tom Stoppard

#Design #Direct

I don't direct movies for a living.
-- Tommy Lee Jones

#Direct

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
-- Tony Shalhoub

#Impossible #Direct

I don't like to direct myself.
-- Vic Morrow

#Direct

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
-- William Burnham Woods

#Action #Remedy #Direct

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
-- William Shatner

#Looks #Scene #Direct

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
-- William Zinsser

#Writing #Ratios #Direct

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
-- Yaphet Kotto

#Writing #Direct

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Worry #Effort #Direct

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.
-- Ben Drew

#Film #Prove #Direct