Direct
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.
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Direct Quotations
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James Allen
It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.
George H. W. Bush
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
Henri Matisse
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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
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Direct Translations
direct in Afrikaans is rig, lei, bestuur, direk
direct in Danish is lige
direct in Dutch is mennen, dirigeren, richten, besturen
direct in Finnish is suora, opastaa, suunnata
direct in French is dirigeons, dirigez, direct, guider, diriger
direct in German is direkt, lenken, unmittelbar
direct in Italian is dirigere, regolare
direct in Latin is directus, intendo, rego rexi rectum
direct in Norwegian is styre, direkte, rettlede
direct in Portuguese is direto
direct in Spanish is mandar, impuestos, directo
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