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“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.”

Light Literature Quality Our Lives Products Direct Scrutinize

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.”

Way Able Literature Simple Activity Appreciate Direct Tribes

Author:Ella Maillart

“The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.”

Want Looks Produce Projects Direct

Author:John Malkovich

“Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.”

President College Members Direct Vote Electoral College Popular Vote Electoral Process

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.”

Want Actors Fun My Own Acting Direct Having Fun Movie

Author:Demetri Martin

“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”

Men Ideas States Materials Direct Philosophical

Author:Karl Marx

“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”

People World Life Inspirational Change Numbers Honest Honesty Willing Life Philosophy Gay Direct Management Real Life Being Honest Novelists Changing The World Proportion Lgbt

Author:Armistead Maupin

“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.”

Important Individual Honesty Products Direct Army Finals Factors Corporations Honest And Integrity Honest Person

Author:Ed McMahon

“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.”

Literature Direct Errors Haste Unreasonable

Author:Moliere

“When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.”

Writing Song Direct Anger Angry Compliment Expressing Anger

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.”

Law Effort Direct Competition Decades Stores Opening Dealer

Author:Elon Musk

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.”

Way Doe Results Direct West Hunger Like Something

Author:Bill Nighy

“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”

Philosophy Action Direct Mathematics Sensual Application Sympathy Intercourse Deductions Inference

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.”

Long Messages Direct Surprise Phones Rings Cells Cell Phone Phone Calls Texting Text Message Mailing

Author:Susan Orlean

“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.”

Individual Fans Direct Assuming Investment Maturity Fund Principal Finite Assured Default

Author:Suze Orman

“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.”

Should Action Justice Revolution Kings Taxes Direct Wake Up Chiefs Stamps Obamacare Colony American Revolution Wake Up Call Chief Justice Call To Action King George Iii Stamp Act

Author:Rand Paul

“Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.”

Thinking Writing Wells Two Cases Special Direct Special Places

Author:Sean Penn

“It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.”

Children Practice Economy Direct Treats Train Consideration Supervision Salespeople

Author:James Cash Penney

“I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.”

Ifs Mouths Direct Take Me

Author:Ron Perlman

“In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.”

Stills I Can Song Direct Interviews Explaining

Author:Adele

“During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.”

Communication Direct England My Time Helpful Captains

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.”

Firsts Children Wanted Together Moon News Direct Expecting Delighted

Author:Adele

“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”

Quality Knowledge Learning Intellectual Direct Independent Management Abstraction

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.”

Men Direct Harder Adversity Prosperity Adversity And Character

Author:Plutarch

“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.”

Literature Direct Passing Passings Charm Proportion Swiftness

Author:Marcel Proust

“Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.”

Years War States United United States Military Cold Direct Unions Intense Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Avoided Civilians Confrontation Clash

Author:Vladimir Putin

“When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.”

Has Beens Lasts Simple Answers Week Direct Blame Killing Killers Riot

Author:Dan Quayle

“I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.”

Ifs Way Happens Actors One Thing Direct Disgusting Behaviour Amazed

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!”

Want Writing Long Film Actors Enjoy Challenges Direct Aspiration Harry Potter Potters Harry Potter Film

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.”

States Law Literature Modern Direct Bases Claims Relation Laws Of Nature Anarchism Jurisprudence

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.”

People Needs Awareness Direct Sensitivity Outspoken Awareness Of Others

Author:Christopher Reeve

“There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.”

Way Want Honest Direct Screens

Author:Jason Reitman

“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”

Way Existence Direct Males Access Rejection Taboo Indirect Compulsory Breaking Promises Heterosexuality

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.”

Use Emotional Direct Connections Logic Our Words Emotional Connection

Author:Jane Roberts

“I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.”

I Can Actors Pride Direct Dinner Kitchen Movie Breakfast Lunch

Author:Julia Roberts

“I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.”

Political Direct Involvement Political Involvement

Author:Pat Robertson

“I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.”

Thinking Writing Looks Film Actors Careers Direct

Author:Eli Roth

“I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.”

People Thinking Made War Hard Feelings Age Film Horror Direct Iraq Strikes Posts Reflecting Iraq War Horror Film

Author:Eli Roth

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”

Energy Failure Benefits Direct Pretending Finishing Success And Failure Success Failure Stripping Solid Foundation Determination To Succeed Stripping Away

Book:Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”

May Ideas Ends Powerful Practice Courage Youth Direct African American Have Courage Be Courageous Old Ideas Courage To Change Unlimited Potential American Youth

Book:Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

“Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.”

People Needs Important Action Direct Wide March Association Demonstration Direct Action

Author:Arthur Scargill

“When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.”

Looks Scene Direct

Author:William Shatner

“Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'”

Want Actors Direct

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.”

Way Divine Direct Salvation Remove Selfless Moksha Divine Life

Author:Sivananda

“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”

Men Doe Life Is Wise Eternal Direct Ultimate Bliss Hotel March Destination Domain Pilgrimage Inns Roadside

Author:Sivananda

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