Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
Lauryn Hill

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
Henri Matisse

Direct threats require decisive action.
Dick Cheney

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.
George H. W. Bush

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Lane Allen

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Horatio Nelson

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.
Hideki Tojo

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Salma Hayek

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
James Cash Penney

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Michael Ignatieff