Direct Approach Quotes

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

You got a problem with me, pull up.

I can tell you that the Iowa way - the Iowa way is to find out that there is a problem and acknowledge it and address it head-on.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

Men huddle in a corner and talk about me, rather than walking up to me and chatting me up.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

When in doubt, use brute force.

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

Concentrate, don't embroider.

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

Do something real, and keep it simple.