Straightforward Quotes - Page 3

• Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.

  Steve Pavlina

  Jobs, Business, Fire

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• Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

  Robert Wagner

  Men, Honest, Sincere

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• The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it's value to the audience and it's value to me then I'm going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Philosophy, Clean, Genre

  "Faster Stars Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton". ComingSoon.net Interview, www.comingsoon.net. November 24, 2010.

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• I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.

  Wale

  Real, Fall, Heart

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

  Rick Riordan

  Understanding, Magic, Enemy

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• Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

  Christopher Meloni

  Black And White, Life Is, White

  "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

  Felicity Jones

  People

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• I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.

  Rashida Jones

  Thinking, Guy, Way

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• I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

  Elif Batuman

  Communication, Writing, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can't stand it.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Hard Times, Knowing

  "ay Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, uk.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

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• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

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• Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

  Franny Billingsley

  Real, Practice, Boxing

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.149, Penguin

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• Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

  Cameron Dokey

  Path, Firsts, Complicated

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• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  Felicity Jones

  Growing Up, Divorce, Thinking

  "Felicity Jones: 'There's a sensation when you're performing of release'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

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• I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.

  Holly Carpenter

  Thinking, Guy, Sometimes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Juice Newton

  Song, Simple, Personality

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• It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.

  Simon Pegg

  Exercise, Missing, Zombie

  "Nerd Do Well". Book by Simon Pegg, www.wired.com. 2010.

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• I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Honesty, Thinking, Wind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Strong, Motivation, Writing

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• The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For at any time or place and on whatever pretext you stir them up,you will have them ready to face danger,even if they have nothing on their side but their own strength and courage.

  Strabo

  War, Character, Race

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• I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.�Someone, from the bottom of my heart...�Straightforward, unwavering...�It seems like such a simple thing, so then why....�...Must it be so incredibly hard?

  Ai Yazawa

  Heart, Simple, Care

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• My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Simple, Car, Principles

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• Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

  Gloria Trevi

  God, Writing, Lines

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• Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

  Dwight Garner

  Song, Political, Wish

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• Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

  Colin Thubron

  Dream, Adventure, Men

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