Evan Davis

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.

British Economist

Lindsay Ellis

The fact that I had spent so many years doing media criticism and thinking really seriously about theme and structure did definitely help. Doing that for several years indirectly built a lot of tools that I would end up using when writing my own fiction.

American Critic

Simone Weil

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

French Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

German Philosopher

Julie Wainwright

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

American Businesswoman

Munira Mirza

It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make our world a better place to live in.

British Public Servant

Malcolm Jenkins

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

American Athlete

Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

British Writer

Devon Cajuste

I want to help people either way, whether it's directly or indirectly.

Linus Torvalds

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Finnish Businessman

Use 'indirect' to describe routes that are not the shortest way to your destination.

Travel Descriptions

'Indirect' can express actions or decisions that avoid the most straightforward method.

Conversation Flow

Use 'indirect' to talk about results that happen as a side effect, not as the main outcome.

Cause and Effect

Describe consequences that are not obvious or expected as 'indirect'.

Unclear Consequences

Indicate when someone is hinting at something or being diplomatic instead of direct.

Subtle Communication

'Indirect' can show politeness or avoidance in social interaction.

Avoiding Directness

In a business context, 'indirect' refers to costs not immediate to creating a product.

Business Expenses

Use 'indirect' to plan for or analyze expenses unrelated to your main business activity.

Budget Planning

 will show you subject, object, verb, placement of indirect, direct objects, gender and so forth. From that point, you can then, if you want to, acquire multiple languages, alternate them so there is no interference. We can talk about that if anyone in interested. And now I love languages. So ballroom dancing, implicit versus explicit -- very important.

Smash fear, learn...

 I mean, it's really indirect fusion, is what it is. We've got this giant fusion generator in the sky called the sun, and we just need to tap a little bit of that energy for purposes of human civilization. What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already.

The mind behind Tesla,...

 Imagine being a brain. You're locked inside a bony skull, trying to figure what's out there in the world. There's no lights inside the skull. There's no sound either. All you've got to go on is streams of electrical impulses which are only indirectly related to things in the world, whatever they may be.

Your brain hallucinates...

 whereas endocannabinoids are released in a specific place in response to a specific stimulus. This widespread activity coupled with the fact that the cannabinoid system indirectly affects many other systems, means that each person’s particular brain chemistry, genetics, and previous life experience

Is marijuana bad for...

 the board on the side and I have two bishops which are can be very strong so more or less the game is balanced but it can be dangerous for black okay is it your turn now I played a very small move with my rook okay that's interesting I see that you're indirectly defending

Giving checkmate is...

 that you can report very indirectly. This is a horrific condition. You don't want to see it. And people are, in fact, imprisoned within their own bodies, but they do have a mind. There was a very interesting film, one of the rare good films done

The quest to understand...

 Which means that somehow, consciously or not, directly or indirectly, in the short or the long term, whatever we do, whatever we hope, whatever we dream -- somehow, is related to a deep, profound desire for well-being or happiness.

The habits of happiness...

 incredible gift to you and and indirectly to many other people in as much as brains you know are plastic and they they they go where the action is and if in for some reason the external world and social cues which so many people

Elon Musk talks Twitter,...

 So if we go back, also thinking about four degrees, it's not just the direct impacts, but also some indirect impacts. So if we take food security, for example. Maize and wheat yields in some parts of the world

Climate Change Is...

 to raise cows or to grow soy to feed pigs in asia every cow and every pig eats tons of feed in its lifetime so when you eat meat you indirectly guzzle all the water it took to grow all these crops