Best direct & indirect Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.”

Thinking Knows Years Ideas Self Home Force Sacrifice Air Dad Direct My Dad Crew Self Sacrifice Air Force Indirect

Author:Jeremy Northam

“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

“Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.”

Ifs Way Country Huge Direct Paid Oil Indirect Deference Suppliers Direct And Indirect

Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.

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

People Direct Indirect

Author:Orrin Woodward

“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

“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

“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

“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”

Way War History Power Society Objects Balance Approach Direct Strategy Rounds Resistance Upset Defenders Indirect Compression Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Levels Emotional Music Is Intellectual Direct Abstract Similarity Indirect

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.”

Firsts Important Economy Direct Financial Articles Creeds Minors Great Art Taxation Controversy Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.”

Inspiration Universe Reflection Direct Indirect Reflections Of Life

Author:Jeet Aulakh

“Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.”

Purpose Direct Divided Indirect

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.”

Law All Things Direct Invisible Visible Retribution Indirect

Book:Some everyday folk and dawn

Source: Some everyday folk and dawn

“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.”

Kind Causes Simple Animal Deals Dying Fronts Easier Direct Plant Species Overwhelming Frightening Famine Drought Indirect Plants And Animals Someone Dying

Author:John H Richardson

“There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.”

Careers Path Successful Direct Plenty Indirect Successful Career

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.”

People World Way Humans Kind Ideas Born Human Beings This World Creatures Direct Aggressive Aggression Passive Indirect Reservoirs Passive Aggressive

Author:Robert Greene

“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

“The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.”

Form Enemy Influence Enlightenment Romantic Direct Method Passionate Extremes Consistent Crucial Revolt Scientific Method Rationalism Indirect Universalism Direct And Indirect

Book:Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Source: Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

“Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.”

Negative Direct Indirect

Author:Martin Walser

“Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.”

Littles Direct Mathematics Plenty Application Indirect

Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched”

“There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.”

People Knows Giving Writing Wells Littles Bits Authority Little Bit Direct Weight Drawing Indirect

Author:Ian Anderson

“Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from these sources build a reasonable case that God exists. But such a God transmits no love to Earth. Therefore nothing substitutes for gyana, which is direct knowledge of the divine. Instead of having thoughts about God, you share God's own thoughts. Her thoughts can only be about Herself.”

Kind Two Earth Cases Share Divine Source Authority Direct Scripture Reasonable Substitutes Sermons No Love Transmit God Exists Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.”

May Used Order Fighting Needed Victory Battle Direct Method Secure Art Of War Joining Indirect Strategist Four Seasons

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“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.”

Body Brain Minutes Events Direct Response Patterns Mechanism Genes Every Second Indirect

Author:Matt Ridley

“When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.”

Writing Firsts Choices Differences Direct Editors Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:Alice Mattison

“As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you're going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.”

People Want May Said Different Government Form Influence Direct West Spread Terrorism Regions Instability Repercussions Indirect Direct And Indirect

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.”

Should Looks Form Direct Corruption Indirect

Author:Wole Soyinka

“If I even tell anything false, within one minute I have to come clean. And I think most people, even if they're not that direct, it comes out in indirect ways. If somebody cheats on you, they end up telling you they've been spending all this time hanging out with that person. Why? Because nobody can bear a lie. A lie won't stay silent. It makes noise.”

People Thinking Lying Direct Silent Hanging Out Cheat Indirect

Author:Kimberly Peirce

“Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're an indirect servant, or a servant with a choice, or maybe you could not even serve. It's the way you make something. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad... artwork is brutal for so many people... I like the idea of an artist as sombody who works.”

People Different Today Artist Choices Enjoy Direct Servant Brutal Indirect

Author:Urs Fischer

“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

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.”

Giving May Art Two War Used Order Fighting Needed Victory Battle Direct Method Series Endless Secure Combination Art Of War Joining Indirect Strategist

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.”

Life Form Science Universe Results Known Roles Consequence Direct Mirrors Chemistry Molecules Indirect Mirror Image Microorganisms Asymmetry

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.”

Source: Roads from Past to Future

“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.”

Looks States Form Evil Speak Liberty Mankind Effects Direct Sight Majority Lays Libertarian Favors Visible Libertarianism Legislation Intervention Beneficial Indirect

Author:A. V. Dicey

“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.”

“I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.”

“There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.”

Mass Evidence Direct Observation Overwhelming Ufo Indication Indirect

Author:Morris K. Jessup

“I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.”

Trying War Reason Causes My Friends Direct Refuse Indirect

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.”

Should Humans Wells Kind War Reason Human Beings Support Direct Assuming Obligation Thoughtful Unconditional Solemn Indirect

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

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