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Letter "A" » Action
«Never mistake motion for action.»
«Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.»
Author: G. M. Trevelyan
| About:
Action,
God
| Keywords:
been, centuries, done, enough, ignorant, impossible, Tell, very, young, young person
«Nothing will work unless you do.»
«Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Action,
Humanity
| Keywords:
compulsions, core, dominate, Human Touch, insight, instincts, The Core
«Never confuse motion with action.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
confuse, motion
«Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.»
«My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.»
«Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Action,
Change
| Keywords:
Action The, arraying, divest, divested, Negro, non violent, passivity, replace, supplement, supplements, vindictive
«No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated»
«My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
aristocratic, democratic, tastes
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