Directness Quotes

“one will not break through to the enemy with theory. Directness is most important, when in front of the lion’s den…”
― Rati Tsiteladze

“When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.”
― Álvaro de Campos

“The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe.”
― Lauren Willig, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria

“It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it."

Outside The Whale (Granta, 1984)”
― Salman Rushdie

“There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It doesn't mean anything to him, she can see by his now-furious glare. He inhales to start shouting, she has no idea what but she doesn't want to hear it, and before he can she snaps, "I'm here to fuck you, Earth burn it. Is that worth disturbing your beauty rest?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“According to history, quite a few times simple man turned out to be the significant man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Then she told me, “You have changed my son.” Her candid tone was blunt, and I loved her directness, unapologetic as the weather.”
― Aspen Matis

“Most people hide their sentiments, their desires, their thoughts, behind veiled phrases, behind indirectness. When someone feels no need to do so, there is always something refreshing about it and a little frightening.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks

“When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction.”
― Darmie Orem

“... I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I’m suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to overcome me, to finesse me like a bridge player. Or to seduce me.”
― Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness

“So few people are genuinely sincere. Most people hide their sentiments, their desires, their thoughts, behind veiled phrases, behind indirectness. When someone feels no need to do so, there is always something refreshing about it and a little frightening.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks

“You had to take the direct approach, never the indirect approach, because colored people invariably avoided unpleasantness, they would lie, they would laugh, but they never faced right up to a situation, head on.”
― Ann Petry, The Narrows

“Self-restraint, a skilful economy of means, ascêsis, that too has a beauty of its own; and for the reader supposed there will be an aesthetic satisfaction in that frugal closeness of style which makes the most of a word, in the exaction from every sentence of a precise relief, in the just spacing out of word to thought, in the logically filled space connected always with the delightful sense of difficulty overcome.”
― Walter Pater, Appreciations, With an Essay on Style

“I thought that directness spoke for itself, but hadn’t realized that the English like their ritual and distrust plain speaking as somehow mendacious. Everything has a hidden meaning, does it not? And the more direct the speech, the more carefully hidden the true meaning must be, the more effort must be expended to understand what is really being said.”
― Iain Pears, [The Portrait] (By: Iain Pears) [published: July, 2005]