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Letter "A" » Action
«Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| About:
Action,
Sports,
Tennis
| Keywords:
atmosphere, combination, taking place, tennis, tranquillity
«That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers»
«There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing»
«There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
comfortable, costs, inaction, less than, program, programmed, range, ranged, ranging, risks, The Long, The Range
«Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
arrived, deliberate, deliberates, Deliberating, go in, stop, The Time
«There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Freedom
| Keywords:
freedom of thought
«There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
renunciation
«The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, ?Where is he at?? By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing??Carry a message to Garcia!?»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Action
«?the doer? is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Action,
Deed,
Identity
| Keywords:
added, doer
«That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute»
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