#direct

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american people #directly #entitled #hear #him

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. ↗

— Edward Norton

#experience #feel #going #got #made

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#diameter #directors #hereby #inches #least

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#business #direction #having #instincts #involved

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#based #close #creativity #dangerously #director

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#best #curious #daniel #david #directors

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#always #america #anger #angry #caused

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#housework #human #opposed #possibility #self-actualization