#dire

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. ↗

— John Dyer

#canvas #directly #enjoy #fresh #i

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing. ↗

— George Eads

#another #beat #comfortable #detail #direction

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#annual #appropriation #broadcasting #corporation #directly

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#administration #against #clinton #clinton administration #completely

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#choose #direct #full #giving #learn

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#accuracy #certainly #change #constantly #degree

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.' ↗

— James Blunt

#because #cheating #communication #describe #detrimental

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction. ↗

— James Blunt

#army #career #could #direction #experience

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#common-sense #direction #energy #energy security #future

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#charlie #director #dizzy #first #i