Direct Approach Quotes

#1. We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Kristin Armstrong

#2. The ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Marya Mannes

#4. The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe.

Lauren Willig

#5. I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

Jurgen Teller

#6. Treat others as you would be treated. Devote yourself to that, for there's no more direct approach to Humanity.

Mencius

#7. 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.

Bill Parcells

#8. This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#9. One direct approach had, by its vain cost, done much to undo the aggregate advantage which indirect approaches alone had built up. And it is not the least significant feature that the issue was finally settled, in the reverse way, by yet another example of the indirect approach.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#10. Of course," Connor replies. "Your daughter is already more articulate than you are, so really, I like Sulli more than I like you."
Connor sips his coffee again like he just professed the weather: sunny with a side of fuck you. Ryke flips him off. The more direct approach to a fuck you.

Becca Ritchie

#11. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#12. If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.

Christopher West

#13. I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages.

Michael Arrington

#14. They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#15. Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.

Robert A. Young

#16. I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

Nancy Reagan

#17. I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.

George Mastras

#18. A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.

Vince Aletti

#19. In Tybalt's case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he's held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to take it away. The Cait Sidhe take a more direct and bloody approach to succession than most of Faerie.

Seanan McGuire

#20. The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.

Ken Cohen

#21. We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

Norman Myers

#22. I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

Cameron Mackintosh

#23. Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

Bill Gates

#24. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

Leonard Ravenhill

#25. I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon)
'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.

Cassandra Clare

#26. Nteraction with a fellow human being, especially one who can understand what you're going through and direct your awareness to the solutions you can use, is a powerful approach to self-help.

Haider Al-Mosawi

#27. Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends on the actor. With some, you do nothing. With some, you're very specific.

John Landis

#28. Paris is always a good idea...
Audrey Hepburn

Barbara Donsky

#29. Fear of Tunisia's democracy led Isis to launch an attack on its tourist economy The nation's future will be bleak if the cruise ships don't return to disgorge their passengers

Anonymous

#30. If you meet a cross-eyed person
you must plunge into the grass,
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover ...

Anne Sexton

#31. Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

Dan Millman

#32. Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

Stephen King

#33. At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.

David Lanz