Top 1200 Direct Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.

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

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

I will definitely direct feature films one day.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

If the Muslim is Sharia-compliant, that is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

To have that opportunity to direct under my belt was fantastic, so I'm glad I did it.

Sometimes we deliberate - for example when we plan a long trip or - if we are not math wizards - when we solve long division problems. However, if we deliberated every time we acted we would never get through the day. Most of the time, we act for reasons without deliberation. I am not just talking about cases of simple, habitual action, like brushing your teeth, but also about more sophisticated action.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro Almodóvar, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I do think that, as an advocate for myself on set, I'm very direct.

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

Hard work is not the path to Well- Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don't create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.