Top 100 A Direct Quotes
#1. One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
C. G. Jung
#2. I saw the same peace in Travis' eyes that I had witnessed only a handful of times, and it hit me that just like the other nights, his content expression was a direct result of reassurance from me.
Jamie McGuire
#3. I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Suze Orman
#4. Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.
Brian Tracy
#5. I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.
David Cameron
#6. Your relationships with others are always a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#7. Call me babe again, and I'll slit your throat," she said, the sweetness in her voice a direct contradiction to the daggers she gave him.
Katherine McIntyre
#8. Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.
Paulo Coelho
#9. Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?
Michael Bunker
#10. I looked at her when she was saying this and I realized that there is absolutely nothing you can say to a person who would feel comfortable suggesting something like that, let alone a direct accusation.
Harvey Pekar
#11. Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.
Michael Eric Dyson
#12. Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.
Terry Wogan
#13. An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
Bob Nelson
#14. The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.
Stefano Gabbana
#15. You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
Jack Herer
#16. You have a direct line to Christ; He's waiting for your call. HS/el
Evinda Lepins
#17. For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, This is my voice.
Laura Benanti
#18. Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
Mark McKinnon
#19. Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.
Harry Caray
#20. We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly
as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth
the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
John Irving
#21. It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#22. I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise
Steve Maraboli
#23. But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?'
'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.
Dick Francis
#24. When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.
Kelly Starrett
#25. The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.
Gary Rohrmayer
#26. Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
Aaron Sorkin
#27. The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
Channing Tatum
#28. Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Mark Rothko
#29. A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing and the sound you're hearing.
Z'EV
#30. Integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
Laozi
#31. It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.
Sharon Gannon
#32. The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
Noam Chomsky
#33. I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich.
Jonathan Wutawunashe
#34. On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
Bocafloja
#35. When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.
Chris Oyakhilome
#36. If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
Julian Jaynes
#37. There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
Lee Maracle
#38. The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.
Ada Lovelace
#39. With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.
Joe Staton
#40. Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
Michael Pollan
#41. Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#42. 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.
Guy Finley
#43. Aleister Crowley's reception of The Book of the Law was a direct manifestation and result of his initiation in the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn was, in fact, the basis of the proclamation of the New Aeon of Horus and the Law of Thelema.
David Cherubim
#44. What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
Simon Sinek
#45. I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.
Susan Sontag
#46. The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Sam Rayburn
#47. Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#48. There was a direct correlation between how nervous I was and how many dumb jokes I made.
Ransom Riggs
#49. How people treat each other is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves. #LoveOneAnother
Chris Vonada
#50. There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.
Adrian Tomine
#51. I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.
Channing Tatum
#52. Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
El-P
#53. I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.
Jill Davis
#54. As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.
Bryan Kest
#55. The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
Paul Krugman
#56. Does it matter if you get the presents anyway? she said, making a direct appeal to greed.
Terry Pratchett
#57. When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction ...
Milton Friedman
#58. I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.
Mary Beth McKenzie
#59. I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.
Jeet Aulakh
#60. When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell
#61. An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.
Jeffrey Archer
#62. Screaming into the abyss is different than having a direct conversation with someone. Like, you can't bore or disappoint or weird out the abyss? There's no pressure involved. No chance of rejection. No chance of looking like a fool.
Unknown
#63. I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.
Paul Kingsnorth
#64. For women, the higher their cholesterol is, the longer their life; there's a direct relationship between the two. Your cholesterol cannot be too high if you are a woman, but it can certainly be too low.
Jimmy Moore
#65. I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
Kiefer Sutherland
#66. It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
Jules Verne
#67. Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
Bryan Singer
#69. I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
Robert Dallek
#70. Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
Chris Spielman
#71. Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#72. No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world's strangest photograph, made out of words, the only material capable of capturing the recesses of the soul it exposes. Richard Zenith, 2001 NOTES
Fernando Pessoa
#73. A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#74. Our failure to know joy is a direct reflection of our inability to forgive.
Joko Beck
#75. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
Harold Prince
#76. The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight, the laws would change tomorrow.
Ben Mathew
#77. The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
John Stuart Mill
#78. Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.
Don DeLillo
#79. Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?
Tim Allen
#80. The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
#81. The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.
Travis Bradberry
#82. A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.
Matt Cartwright
#83. Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
Linda Vester
#84. I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.
John Logan
#85. There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.
Jeff Lemire
#86. I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.
Jerrod Carmichael
#87. Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#88. I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.
Ariel Seraphino
#89. Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#90. I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
Queen Latifah
#91. If you'd managed to force it open, you would have made a direct path between the interior of the Peerless and the void, which is something we try to discourage.
Greg Egan
#92. He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#93. A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.
Wallace D. Wattles
#94. 'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And ... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone.
Philip Baker Hall
#96. Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.
Iyanla Vanzant
#97. Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.
Isabel Allende
#98. Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order
William J. Brennan
#99. Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time ... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.
Guido Molinari
#100. I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash
