Top 1200 Being Straightforward Quotes & Sayings

There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.

It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine.

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

I do everything in a straightforward manner.

I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.

My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

I am a straightforward man.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

I'm too blunt and straightforward for politics, but I'm friends with all.

When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets." This is young people being groped. That form of power - using sexuality for power and control - seems pretty straightforward to me. When are we going to just say that the cops are the enemy here?

I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

Working with Salman, I have observed that he is a very straightforward person.

I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.

Truth is always straightforward.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.

Math is pretty straightforward.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.

He's a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

You've just got to be honest and straightforward.

Lots of people tell me I am straightforward.

I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

There is a difference between being straightforward and careless.

I'm just straightforward.

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward

I am a serious and straightforward person.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.