#straightforward

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

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. ↗

— Xun Zi

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man. ↗

— Robert Wagner

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I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#always #bring #down #emotion #far

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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