Quotes of: Action Keyword

I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

Francesco Quinn

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuo...

Alex Tabarrok

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Aristotle

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

Chen Guangbiao

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Jacques Lipchitz

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

LeRoy Neiman

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

The Universe mirrors you. It mirrors your thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. It mirrors your actions and reactions.

Alignment: Law of Attraction and the Seven Universal Laws

There is only one way to learn, the alchemist answered. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

The Alchemist

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement

In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.

Aglow With The Spirit

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

Hamlet

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.

Icefall

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.

Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

Impulse

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Jane Austen And Her Art

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Jane Eyre

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

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