Best direct & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.”

Ends Behinds Steps Direct Cameras

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“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.”

Ends Earth Christian Used Spirit Desire Turns Choices United Lord Grace Cutting Direct Orthodox Adam Forbidden Deceived Forefathers Cfs Free Choice

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“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

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.”

Ends Government School Political Individual Church Direct Organization Function Institutions Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.”

Way May Littles Ends Sometimes Violence Direct Substitutes

Book:Foundation Trilogy

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Looks Ends Play Moments Able Wanted Lying Realizing Dark Darkness Seeing Direct Handle Dark Moments

Author:Ethan Hawke

“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.”

People Ends Found Leader Clear Approach Direct Valuable Circles Soap Direct Approach

Book:HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

Source: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

“I've been in situations where I've been sent scripts to direct, and I always end up becoming very controlling and wanting to rewrite it to fit what I think it should say, and it just usually doesn't work.”

Thinking Should Ends Situation Becoming Fit Direct Scripts

Author:Frank Whaley

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.”

Ifs Knows Feels Two Ends Christian Religious Position Conflict Direct Consideration Discourse Compelled Bans Pluralism Public Discourse

Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything”

People Ends Language Direct Universal British The End Of The Day Flirting Indirect Universal Language

Author:Rachel Weisz

“Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.”

“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.”

“An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.”

Ifs War Ends Action Nations Violence Mass Ideals Direct Revolutionary Latter Divorced Bourgeois Peace War Seducing Pillaging

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.”

Knows Ends Wanted School Film Actors Acting Know How Direct Intention Caught Bugs Film School

Author:Benn Northover

“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.”

Way Ends Social Goal Achieve Standards Direct Strive Customs Conform Standards Set

Book:Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Source: Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

“You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?”

Ifs Ends Black Ability Walks Hell Argument Direct Cameras Video Conclusion Artistic Logical Video Cameras Artistic Ability

Author:Gavin Hood

“Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.”

Thinking Giving Made Important Ends House Energy Materials Aspect Direct Connections Details Architecture Construction Frank Site Spatial

Author:Steven Holl

“Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. There's human beings killed on the other end. You never see them. You don't have to worry about them. You don't have to meet their widows. It's sort of an antiseptic warfare.”

Want Humans War Ends Country Human Beings Perfect Worry Weapons Direct Warfare Involvement Widows Drones Fingerprints

Author:Mark Shields

“Producers say things that they would like to see in the movie but they don't see the full picture. In the end if you ignore everything the producers say, of course, you get fired; but then if you listen to a producer on everything then it's like 'Hey - why don't you direct your own movie?'”

Ifs Ends Courses Direct Producers Hey

Author:Ryuhei Kitamura

“That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it accessible is the desire to communicate, more than anything. It does make it accessible, but that's not what motivates me.”

Thinking Way Doe Ends Desire Materials Direct Communicate

Author:Frances Stark

“There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it turns out in the end. Even the smallest things. You don't want to really acknowledge that, because you want to believe that you are the only creative asset as a director. You want to believe you're the only one. But I really feel that everyone teams up and everybody really affects everything. Actually, it's the closest I will get to playing in a band.”

Way Want Feels Believe Different Ends Film Turns Creative Team Band Directors Direct One Way Acknowledge Different Ways Assets Closest Smallest

Author:Lukas Moodysson

“Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.”

Ends Government Liberty Ought Direct

Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

“My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.”

Ends Jobs Film Direct

Author:Abel Ferrara

“Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.”

People Ends Evil Results Direct Worldview Horrific

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.”

Writing Ends Novel Direct Personal Life Correlation

Author:Laurie Foos

“I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Trying I Can Ends Hands Bigs My Own Company Imagine Figures Produce Right Now Direct Scripts Credit Chunks

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.”

Ifs Ends Film Watches Direct Angry Bunch Teenager Glitter Exploding

Author:Lena Dunham

“In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.”

Ifs Doe Real Ends Actors Individual Results Audience Type Direct Cinema Very Deep End Results Individual Strength

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.”

Way Writing Looks Art Ends Problem Lines Simple Quality Break Materials Pages Aspect Direct Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Problem Solving Presentation Stressed Compounds Pacing

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The debt settlement company will direct you to stop paying your creditor and instead send the money directly to them each month. The company's goal is to demonstrate to your creditor that you don't have the money to pay up - that's your leverage. After a few months, the company will typically go to the creditor and say, "I'm holding X dollars on behalf of your customer. He doesn't have the money to pay you, so you should take this amount as a settlement or you'll end up with nothing." If the creditor wants to get paid badly enough, it will take the money.”

Ifs Want Should Ends Enough Goal Pay Company Months Amount Direct Paid Dollars Debt Customers Behalf Settlement Creditors Each Month Debt Settlement

Author:Jean Chatzky

“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

“When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.”

“There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.”

People Ends Choices Decision Results Wise Direct Life Choices

Book:The Lonestar Collection: Lonestar Sanctuary, Lonestar Secrets, Lonestar Homecoming, and Lonestar Angel

Source: The Lonestar Collection: Lonestar Sanctuary, Lonestar Secrets, Lonestar Homecoming, and Lonestar Angel

“It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.”

Ends Whole Strong Difficult Community Leadership Leader Growing Century Demand Direct Contemporary Proportion Australia Misfortunes Difficult Times Spectrum Australian Lack Of Confidence

Author:Hugh Mackay

“Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

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