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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe. – Georges Clémenceau	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe. – Georges Clémenceau	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. – Phillips Brooks	added by anonymous 9 years ago
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold Glasow	added by shelleyrich66 9 years ago
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. – Thornton Wilder	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. – James Russell Lowell	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If the Federal Government will confine itself to the exercise of powers clearly granted by the Constitution , it can hardly happen that its action upon any question should endanger the institutions of the States or interfere with their right to manage matters strictly domestic according to the will of their own people. – Franklin Pierce	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. – Elizabeth Gaskell	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The hardest part about doing Spaceballs (1987) was not laughing when they said "action". – Daphne Zuniga	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. – Harold Rosenberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. – Christian Nevell Bovee	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse. – William Howard Taft	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. – Jacob Bronowski	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm. – Constantin Stanislavski	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. – Brendan Francis Brown	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Yes, recognition is a powerful motivator—to those who receive it as well as those who observe it. – Lowell Milken	added by BobRaven 10 years ago
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. – Bertolt Brecht	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. – David Seabury	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. – Cesare Pavese	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. – Wendell Phillips	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. – Tehyi Hsieh	added by anonymous 10 years ago

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