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“Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.”

Author:Laurent Lamothe

“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”

Hands Computer Sitting Direct Screens Printing Computer Screen

Author:Christian Marclay

“I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Crazy Fine Direct

Author:Ezra Miller

“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.”

Thinking Should Ideas Actors Given Leader Offers Direct Productions Good Actors

Author:Joe Mantello

“I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Direct Twenties

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.”

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Author:Meles Zenawi

“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”

Way Want Humans Kind Able Wanted Direct Cat Boredom Sensations Imagery Shorthand

Author:Cecily Brown

“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

Writing Trying Years I Can Two Stories Race Direct Two Years Take Me

Author:Steven Spielberg

“In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.”

People Writing Play Facts Film Results Views Watches Novel Creative Direct Creative Work Artificiality

Author:Will Self

“Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.”

Men Years Desire Listening Direct Satisfaction Instant Unhappiness Routes Gratification Tribulation Counterproductive

Author:James E. Faust

“All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.”

Giving Heart Made Important Jesus Christ Divine Expression Source Jesus Christ Direct Died Shining Rose Core Saving God Love Manifest Saving Love

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.”

Men Life Is Next Direct Greatest Gifts

Author:David O. McKay

“Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”

Desire Secret Particular Pride Direct Oneself Conviction Appreciation Vanity Paramount

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.”

People Direct Indirect

Author:Orrin Woodward

“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.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Philosophy Film Sound Direct Asking Response Pompous

Author:Michel Gondry

“The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”

Want Body Pain Love Is Stage Broken Scene Direct Bones Setting Settings Cherish Love Is Like Broken Bone

Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.”

People Way Giving Trying Firsts Stills Important Hard Helping Form Three Understanding Break Missing Figures Objects Materials Tools Direct Presses Behave Digital Quests Impressive Rendering

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.”

Ideas Different Stories Direct Profession Different Ideas

Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.”

Knows Want Feels Trying Kind Hard Next Chance Written Direct Tone Translate Frontiers

Author:Dana Fox

“What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.”

Want Years Long Film Three Found Havens Direct Producers Right Thing Three Years

Author:Grant Heslov

“I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.”

Jobs Program Direct Bills Employment Chiefs Incentives Jersey New Jersey Indirect Sponsors Direct And Indirect

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.”

Children Today Father Clear Direct Managers Acquire Teens Consumption Success In Life Pakistan Equations Going To Work Items Measurement Ibm

Author:Tino Sehgal

“We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.”

“Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful .. approach is in direct contrast to brutal and destabilizing methods used by the US and EU. The world is waking up to reality that there actually is, suddenly, some strong and determined resistance to Western imperialism. After decades of darkness, hope is emerging.”

World Reality Used Strong Darkness Approach Direct Wake Up Method Western Determined Decades Russia Resistance Peaceful Waking Contrast Dictatorship Brutal Imperialism Emerging Mutiny

Author:Andre Vltchek

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!”

Christian Sin Simple Answers Powerful Direct Weak Temptation Testament New Testament Very Powerful

Author:Martyn

“I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.”

Ifs Needs Direct Communicate Email Linkedin

Author:Martin Parr

“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”

Way Order Justice Decision Exercise Shapes Consequence Flow Direct Guarantees Interpretation Defining Crow Judicial Contemplative Jim Crow Incompatibility

Author:William J. Brennan

“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”

Men World Way Littles Book Real Hard Language Effort Direct Painful Stores Invention Contact Real World Alphabet Hard Way Great Inventions

Author:B. F. Skinner

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

“The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.”

“...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”

People Sometimes Felt Known Movement Serious Activity Direct Theater Various Harm Uplifting Lacking Idealism

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.”

Country Economy Growing Direct Bases Investment Productions East Japan Asian Imports Accelerate Asian Countries

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.”

Understood Direct Possession Possessed Never Quit

Author:Ted Kotcheff

“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.”

Thinking Way Writing Helping Stories Worry Issues Cost Projects Direct Productions Do The Best Constraints

Author:Jose Padilha

“The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.”

Direct Method Sensations Magnitude Estimation

Author:Stanley Smith Stevens

“Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.”

Important Sometimes Stories Direct Relation

Author:Linda Vester

“I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.”

Knows Want Direct

Author:Gedde Watanabe

“There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.”

Self Greater Awareness Solitude Demand Discovery Direct Self Discovery Living Alone

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.”

Ifs Giving Feels Matter Reason Joy Lines Our Lives Crazy Gratitude Angel Direct Thanksgiving Thankful Being Thankful

Book:Angel Days

Source: Angel Days

“God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.”

Children Made Waiting Prayer Special Mankind Direct Communicate Available Access All Time God Love Instant

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.”

Way Strong Results Enemy Successful Records Military Position Circumstances Direct Pressure Consistently Commanders Under Pressure

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“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.”

Form Economic Military Approach Direct Strategy Campaigns Conclusion Proportion Hopeful Significance Indirect Rarity Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.”

Military Direct Pressure Resistance Opponents

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“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.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.”

War States Military Consequence Direct Internals Civilized Decay Assault Foe Exhaustion Downfall

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.”

Lines Gratitude Angel Direct

Book:Angel Days

Source: Angel Days

“Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.”

World Reason Felt Tree Particular Direct Plant Bounds Ill Woods Forests Mysterious Meaning Of Life Awe Closest Embodiment Deviation Awe Inspiring

Author:Carl Jung

“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”

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