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Letter "A" » Action
«Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.»
«Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Action,
Behavior,
Generosity
| Keywords:
cunning, cunning man, generous
«Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.»
«Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.»
«Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.»
Author: Henry Anatole Grunwald
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
libel, ornament, perspective, replaced, resort, resort to
«Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.»
«May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Law and lawyers,
Life,
Living,
Maxim
| Keywords:
maxim
«Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Action,
Beginning,
Habit,
Motivation,
Success
| Keywords:
gets, Getting started, habit, keeps, motivation, motivations, started
«Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Actors and acting,
Personality,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
performing, temperate
«Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Action,
Thinking
| Keywords:
fatalism, inclined, providence
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