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| Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. | Barbara Sher | American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was'' |
| Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet |
| Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. | Elwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985, American Author, Editor | |
| Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| It is not necessary for all men to be great in ACTION. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. | Horace Bushnell | 1802-1876, American Congregational Minister, Theologian |
| InACTION may be the biggest form of ACTION. | Jerry Brown | |
| Speech is always bolder than ACTION. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extrACTION of the living intellect that bred them. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. | Joseph Joubert | 1754-1824, French Moralist |
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| Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. | Leo Buscaglia | American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author |
| Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. | Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-, British Author |
| English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to ACTION. | Marilyn Butler | American Writer |
| There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936-, Latin American Author |
| Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. | Martin Heidegger | 1889-1976, German Philosopher |
| Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. | P. D. James | 1920-, British Mystery Writer |
| Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. | Paul De Man | 1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic |
| The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of ACTION. | Raymond Holliwell | |
| The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
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| Speech is the mirror of ACTION. | Solon | 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman |
| A library implies an act of faith. | Victor Hugo | 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad ACTION, a bad motive will always vitiate a good ACTION. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. | W. M. L. Jay | |
| We talk on principal, but act on motivation. | Walter Savage Landor | 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist |
| There are no second acts in American lives. | Source Unknown | |
| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is ACTION, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. | Carlos Castaneda | American Anthropologist, Author |
| When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. | Clark Moustakas | Humanistic Psychologist |
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| Success... seems to be connected with ACTION. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. | Conrad Hilton | 1887-1979, American Hotelier, Businessman, Founder, Hilton Hotels |
| I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
| It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. | Frederick II) Frederick The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786), | |
| All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals. | I Ching | 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes |
| A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
| As life is ACTION and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and ACTION of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. | Ralph J. Cudworth | 1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher |
| These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to ACTION as you go through the day. | Alan Lakein | American Time Management Expert, Author, Trainer |
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| Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. | Andrew Grove | American, CEO of Intel |
| You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. | Creighton Abrams | American Commander of Forces in Vietnam |
| There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. | Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer |
| We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. | David Bailey | 1938-, British Photographer |
| Leadership is ACTION, not position. | Donald H. Mcgannon | |
| Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. | Ferdinand E. Marcos | 1917-1989, Philippines Statesman, President |
| Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. | Fred A. Allen | 1894-1957, American Radio Comic |
| The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of ACTION he develops in meeting those tests. | Gail Sheehy | 1937-, American Journalist, Author |
| Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. | Henry George | 1839-1897, American Social Reformer, Economist |
| If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. | J. Paul Getty | 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire |
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