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«Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.»
Author: Brendan Francis | About: Action, Inspiration | Keywords: engagements, inspirations, in for
«It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.»
Author: Duke Ellington (Composer, Pianist) | About: Action | Keywords: intent
«Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Action | Keywords: disuse, even so, inaction, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, loses, purity, rusted, rusts, sap, sapped, sapping, saps, stagnation, vigour, water
«It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.»
Author: Mae West (Actress) | About: Action, Potential | Keywords: Say It
«In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.»
Author: Martin Niemoeller (Pastor) | About: Action
«In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.»
Author: Sallust | About: Action | Keywords: acquires, engaged, illustrious, laudable
«Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.»
Author: Dale Carnegie | About: Action, Confidence, Fear | Keywords: action, breeds, busied, busier, busiest, busy, busying, confidence, confidences, conquer, doubt, Going Home, go out, home, inaction, sit, sit by, think about
«In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Action | Keywords: arena, honors, rewards
«In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.»
Author: Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist) | About: Action | Keywords: affects, cautious, relations, the Action
«If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Action, Quality | Keywords: act as
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