Action Quotes - Page 25

• English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Play, Absurd, Form

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• The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Feelings, Causes

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1999). “Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations”, p.48, Stanford University Press

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• Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

  Moliere

  Courses

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• It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Energy

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• My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one was absolutely necessary and entirely justifiable. Saddam Hussein had attacked and invaded Kuwait, a sovereign independent state, it was a blatant act of aggression, and action was justifiable and necessary. I have no problems with that at all.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, Independent, Problem

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• REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Propensity, Humans

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhist, Today

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Rewards, Results

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• The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mean, Views

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• All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Desire, Causes, Rebirth

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• When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.

  Ben Stiller

  Kids, Thinking, Together

  "‘Night at the Museum’: Stiller and Van Dyke Talk Comedy". Hollywood. com interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.

  Harry Shearer

  Years, People, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

  Steve Scalise

  War, Want

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Nice, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

  Kit Harington

  Fighting, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

  William J. Clinton

  People, President, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Academic, Domain

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Self, Desire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Men, Existence

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Failure, Rushing, Trying

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Morality, Opium

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• If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Empowering, Succeed

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Love, Grace, Deserve

  Robert H. Schuller (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Robert H. Schuller”, Bristol Park Books

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• Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Evil, Our Actions, Goodness

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