Direct Quotes - page 11

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. (Grenville Kleiser)
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic. View quote
Harsha Bhogle
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. View quote
Helen Vendler
I don't direct the plays of others. View quote
Israel Horovitz
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. View quote
Jeremy Northam
I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them. View quote
Joe Lhota
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves. View quote
Joe Mantello
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. View quote
Jackson Rathbone
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information. View quote
John Warnock
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up. (Joichi Ito)
I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak. View quote
Joshua Leonard
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration. View quote
James Cash Penney
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs. View quote
James Coburn
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! View quote
Kajol
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. View quote
Ken Burns
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect. View quote
Leslie Caron
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director? View quote
Linda Hunt
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. View quote
Lorraine Toussaint
Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth. View quote
Laurent Lamothe
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. (Laurie Helgoe)
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. View quote
Leland Stanford
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. View quote
Mark Rydell
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. View quote
Mary Ellen Mark
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. View quote
Mary McLeod Bethune