Direct Quotes

• I think making music is removing the barriers from your inside and allowing that to come through your horn to the outside. I think I’m getting better and better at focusing on what it is I’m trying to convey when I’m playing. I think my style, playing-wise, is a little more direct, more identifiable, more communicative, more consistently me and less derivative.

  

  Boney James
  • Style
  • Barriers
  • Focusing

• 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.

  

  Carole King
  • Band
  • Moving
  • Get Better

• If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Life
  • Men
  • Needs

• Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Thoughts

• All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Different
  • Forget
  • Directors

• There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Evidence
  • Sat
  • Alex

• I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • Interesting
  • Stage
  • Direct

• Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Art
  • Form
  • Excess

• The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on the big screen. [It's] the same thing from behind the camera; maybe even worse. Coming up, when you're black and you want to direct somebody says, "Oh, you're Spike Lee" or "You're John Singleton."

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Black
  • Direct
  • Abundance

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

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Dream

• The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone.

  

  Javan
  • Pain
  • Moments
  • Feel

• I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Mind
  • Worry
  • Reflection

• The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mind
  • Force
  • Donkey

• Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feels
  • Intuition
  • Direct

• Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Philosophical
  • Statements
  • Political Things

• There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Science
  • Genius
  • Advancement

• Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Work
  • God
  • Thoughts

• I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Love
  • Direct
  • Confrontation

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

  

  Simon Baker
  • Direct
  • Disagree

• Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Purpose
  • Policy
  • Energetic

• I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Protect

• The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

  

  Al Gini
  • Power
  • Control
  • Direct

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