Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it. " I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.
I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
[Slave] trade. . . is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish. . . liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]. . . . It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that a great song, our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.
I'd like to direct more operas.
Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.
Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.
We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. The purpose of all the spiritual practices that exist are to awaken that sparkto give it life, to give it energy, so that it can transform you. One of the energies that comes from that spark is Love.
I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"
I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language. . . No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.
When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.