Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
~By Tony Robbins ~
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
~By Robert Rainy ~
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
~By Max von Laue ~
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
~By Colin Powell ~
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
~By Alan Lomax ~
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
~By Robert Conquest ~
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
~By Saint Teresa ~
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
~By Jose Marti ~
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
~By Billie Jean King ~
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
~By Amy Lowell ~
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
~By Herodotus ~
Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
~By Joel Coen ~
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
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.
~By Jacques Lipchitz ~
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I say that justice is truth in action.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
~By Mike Weir ~
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
~By Ursula Andress ~
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
~By George Edward Moore ~
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
~By Steven Brust ~
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.
~By June Singer ~
I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
~By Stanley Milgram ~
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
~By Jaron Lanier ~
The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
~By Herb Alpert ~
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
~By John Portman ~
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
~By Diane Cilento ~
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
~By J. Robert Oppenheimer ~
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
~By Stephen Fry ~
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
~By Jerry Lewis ~
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
~By Elia Kazan ~
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
~By William Goldman ~
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~By Anais Nin ~
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.
~By Jonny Lee Miller ~
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
~By William Howard Taft ~
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history.
~By Ferenc Madl ~
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
~By Judith Ellen Foster ~
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
~By John Burns ~
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
~By Dick Cavett ~
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Justice is the truth in action.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
~By George Washington ~
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
~By Camille Paglia ~
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
~By Frank Lautenberg ~
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~By Carl Jung ~
Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
~By Rumi ~
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~By Alex Noble ~
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
~By Mae West ~
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~
What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
~By Demosthenes ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
~By Richard Whately ~
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
~By Susan Collins ~
The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
~By Howard Berman ~
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
~By Dora Russell ~
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
~By Dorothy Day ~
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