Straightforwardness Quotes

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.

Chögyam Trungpa

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

Donna Lynn Hope

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Anthon St. Maarten

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.