Direct Response Quotes

#1. This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them

Deborah Brodie

#2. I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Errollyn Wallen

#3. Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response

David Ogilvy

#4. 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

#5. To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

Aliza Sherman

#6. My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.

Nathan Lowell

#7. Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

Gore Vidal

#8. The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood

David Ogilvy

#9. I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

Kevin Harrington

#10. I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Eliot Engel

#11. Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Barbara Walters

#12. Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Matt Ridley

#13. Begging everyone's pardon," said Big Konar, "but it ain't polite to have an argument if nobody else knows what the fuck you're arguing about.

Scott Lynch

#14. I said hello to the poodle.

Rick Riordan

#15. You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Michel Gondry

#16. 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

#17. Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.

Beau Bokan

#18. An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.

Jeffrey Archer

#19. Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

John Doar

#20. The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

Noam Chomsky

#21. They may direct the construction of the body and brain in the womb, but then they set about dismantling and rebuilding what they have made almost at once - in response to experience.

Matt Ridley

#22. Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

James Gandolfini

#23. Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

Erika Hall

#24. Alvarenga believed he didn't need a doctor to diagnose what was wrong. He was suffering from a yearlong tortilla drought.

Jonathan Franklin

#25. I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

George Michael

#26. We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by marriage. It's an act of love - of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There's nothing about it you shouldn't welcome.

Colleen McCullough

#27. I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Agatha Christie

#28. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. - Romans 12:6a, NIV

Henry Cloud

#29. One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

Timothy Garton Ash

#30. I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it's such a new thing. I think in the past there's been usually fan mail and that's really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.

Alison Brie

#31. Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together

Colin Powell

#32. When you love what's deeper, your response is direct. There won't be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.

John De Ruiter

#33. What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Max Brooks