“Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.” WayDifferentKidsMotherFatherCommunicationDirectDifferent Ways Author:Richard Louv
“I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.” IfsThinkingWayProtectPaperDirectDo It Yourself Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.” WayActionChoicesActorsHealthBuddhismShapesDirectGuidesEmptinessInherentAthletics Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.” IfsWayCountryHugeDirectPaidOilIndirectDeferenceSuppliersDirect And Indirect Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.
“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.” WayWantHumansKindAbleWantedDirectCatBoredomSensationsImageryShorthand Author:Cecily Brown
“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.” ThinkingWayNeedsLittlesPhilosophyFilmSoundDirectAskingResponsePompous Author:Michel Gondry
“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.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“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.” WayWantShouldKindPersonsArtBookSometimesJobsReadingAsksLiteratureEasyCan DoChallengesSimpleEffortTvsDirectWhat You WantAll KindsPassiveObscureInteractive Author:Jeanette Winterson
“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” WayOrderJusticeDecisionExerciseShapesConsequenceFlowDirectGuaranteesInterpretationDefiningCrowJudicialContemplativeJim CrowIncompatibility 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.” MenWorldWayLittlesBookRealHardLanguageEffortDirectPainfulStoresInventionContactReal WorldAlphabetHard WayGreat Inventions Author:B. F. Skinner
“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.” ThinkingWayWritingHelpingStoriesWorryIssuesCostProjectsDirectProductionsDo The BestConstraints Author:Jose Padilha
“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.” WayStrongResultsEnemySuccessfulRecordsMilitaryPositionCircumstancesDirectPressureConsistentlyCommandersUnder Pressure Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.” ThinkingWayTeachingEventsBuddhismMindfulnessDirectBuddhistApplicationWay Of ThinkingAccomplishing Something Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.” WayWritingWantedDirect Author:Ben Stiller