Straightforward Quotes

#1. Research has shown that creativity is enhanced when performing straightforward mechanical tasks such as jogging, cooking, and driving. Unobstructed thinking time is always useful.

Graeme Simsion

#2. Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Bruno Mars

#3. Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

Juice Newton

#4. I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them the whole prospect of marriage would be too alarming, and none of them would ever do it.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

Henry Paulson

#7. Being in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is always in a strong position for making conquests.

Anthony Powell

#8. He referred to 'the myth of discipline' and how in the end it all boils down to how badly you want something. Do you really want to have a defined six-pack or do you want those doughnuts? Which one gets you the most excited? It really is as simple and as straightforward as that.

Nick Mitchell

#9. I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

Amy Winehouse

#10. It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.

Hugh Hudson

#11. The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go.

Heather K. O'Hara

#12. I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

Amanda Schull

#13. Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no
conflict at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

Janine Di Giovanni

#15. Pretty straightforward and simple right? Absolutely. On paper, the ingredients to a successful weight loss program are very basic. In fact, it is almost mathematical. How?

Lance Armsonn

#16. People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!

Mary Stewart

#17. I saw how three or four ingredients, as long as they are of the highest and freshest quality, can be combined in a straightforward way to make a truly excellent and occasionally wondrous product.

Anthony Bourdain

#18. was so straightforward and obvious that it sounds almost ridiculous to talk about it.

James C. Collins

#19. A planetary shield being a fairly straightforward thing, there was hardly ever a problem with the system.

Alan Dean Foster

#20. My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.

Tom Ford

#21. Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.

Jeanette Winterson

#23. We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.

Hillary Clinton

#24. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

Jesse L. Martin

#25. Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

Michael Palin

#26. Interahamwe and became a murderer. The stories they told were straightforward:

Eric Greitens

#27. But when we talk about God, we're talking about the very straightforward affirmation that everything has a singular, common source and is infinitely, endlessly, deeply connected.

Rob Bell

#28. My plans had seemed straightforward, then my road kept dipping and turning and I kept getting caught in its traps. No I felt mired in mud in the middle of nowhere. Lost.

Maria V. Snyder

#29. And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Mark Haddon

#30. I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

Jessica Williams

#31. Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.

Barry S. Strauss

#32. But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

Laura Hillenbrand

#33. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

#34. Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all.

Virginia Woolf

#35. I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

P.D. James

#36. The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.

Chris Adrian

#37. You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

Paul McCartney

#39. What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Ron Schiller

#40. What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.

Peter Capaldi

#41. I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

Zack Snyder

#42. Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Laurence Overmire

#43. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

#44. I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.

Gillian Flynn

#45. The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants who already live in our communities, work for our businesses and want to give back to the country that they call home.

Alan Grayson

#46. I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.

John Mulaney

#47. Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Dante Alighieri

#48. The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.

John Shimkus

#49. Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

James D. Watson

#50. The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that. I didn't want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.

Adrian Hodges

#51. Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Tim Berners-Lee

#52. I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#53. It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Edward Tufte

#54. Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Seneca The Younger

#55. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Don DeLillo

#56. I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.

Josh Lanyon

#57. Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Jasper Fforde

#58. The cottage pie was about as wholesome and straightforward as you could get. It was food for winter evenings and happy days. And the salad was rich, complicated, a little bit sweet, and seemed to be trying way too hard to be impressive. We'd both served each other a metaphor.

Alexis Hall

#59. I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.

Michael Learned

#60. My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.

Michael Ian Black

#61. We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.

C.S. Friedman

#62. It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Geoffrey Wood

#63. But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#64. Wonder is the sense, which comes in a flash but won't go away, that things are not as straightforward as they seem, that the ordinary way, or explanation and argument leaves you with unbearable contradictions and impossibilities.

Eva Brann

#65. Sometimes a person can smile when you are feeling only the difficulty of a thing and the problem unravels before your eyes and becomes straightforward.

Rachel Joyce

#66. I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

Julian Jarrold

#67. I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.

Cameron Dokey

#68. If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Jeff Bezos

#69. Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

Doug Martsch

#70. When we do something with a quite simple, clear mind, we have no notion or shadows, and our activity is strong and straightforward. But when we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.

Shunryu Suzuki

#71. Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

Christopher Meloni

#72. I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#73. There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.

Elena Ferrante

#74. All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.

Lauren Bacall

#75. The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

Bobby Seale

#76. The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#77. The answer was straightforward: instances of the class will be retrieved from memory, and if retrieval is easy and fluent, the category will be judged to be large. We defined the availability heuristic as the process of judging frequency by the ease with which instances come to mind.

Daniel Kahneman

#78. Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Kate Jacobs

#79. That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Walker Evans

#80. I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

Felicity Jones

#81. Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward

Kaye Dacus

#82. In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

Frances Mayes

#83. Stupidity is brief and straightforward, while intelligence is tortuous and sneaky.

Anonymous

#84. The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

#85. I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

Tayari Jones

#86. I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.

Susanne Bier

#87. If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long and torturous edit process when it seemed that 'Zulu Hart,' the first of the trilogy, would never be fit for public consumption.

Saul David

#88. You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured.

Dylan Baldi

#89. I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is.

Donna Tartt

#90. I hate how it's so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

Daria Snadowsky

#91. My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Kid Rock

#92. It's just recognizing the fact that we control our thoughts and our thoughts control our lives. This is an extremely simple, totally straightforward concept, but for a lot of people, it's so alien that it might as well be magic.

Sophia Amoruso

#93. Oscar had a straightforward, dimpled, happy smile. It was one of the hundreds of great things about him.
And after that we were best friends. It had been as simple and inevitable as the striking of a match.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#94. Life is not straightforward: relationships bifurcate; there is nothing more complicated, more confounding, than love.

Sarah Hall

#95. The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.

Stanley Hauerwas

#96. In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation ... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

David Cameron

#97. I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

Clive Owen

#98. What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

Bill Buford

#99. At the very least, the data they sell means you get to use genuinely useful services like Facebook and Google without paying money for them. What we get in return for the government's intrusion is less straightforward.

Christian Rudder

#100. True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another ... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Shunryu Suzuki