All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.
Herbert Simon

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Irving Langmuir

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
Fred Savage

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
Junius

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
Anton Seidl

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
Dave Holland

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
Elmer Bernstein

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.
John Perkins

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Mark Rydell

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
Nick Lowe

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
Sophie Marceau

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Tobe Hooper

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
Norman McLaren

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
Richard Masur