Directness Quotes 

When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.
Ellen G. White
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No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

jacques barzun

— IV (Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943))

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While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

stephanie zacharek

— Review of 9 Songs (2005)

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Some attitudes may be named... which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility.

john dewey

— The Traits of Individual Method

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Some attitudes may be named... which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility.


— John Dewey (1916) Democracy and Education. Section 13: The Traits of Individual Method

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What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitable, to one trying it nothing less so.

j. v. cunningham

— The Problem of Style, Fawcett, New York 1966

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