Action Quotes - Page 37

• Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Mind, Existence

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• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Girl, Country

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• One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Assessment, Needs

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• People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Don't Change

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• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving Up, Real

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• Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Mean, Attention

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• In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

  Frederick Lenz

  Abuse, Our Actions, Waste

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• Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.163, SIU Press

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• [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, People, Community

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

  Guy Pearce

  Ideas, Sides, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.

  Lauren Mackler

  Pain, Positive Thinking, People

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• Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.

  Lauren Mackler

  Self, Not Good Enough, Childhood

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• Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.

  Lauren Mackler

  Procrastination, Feelings, Down And

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

  Lauren Mackler

  People, Busy, Pursue

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.

  Hans Hartung

  Freedom, Artist, Ideas

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• Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science. Hence it is at least conceivable that what science has been telling us for three hundred years about man and his place in nature could be playing by now an important role in our lives.

  Henry Stapp

  Men, Years, Roots

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.

  Jeff Olson

  Attitude, Philosophy, Positive Life

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.20, Greenleaf Book Group

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• The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.

  Jeff Olson

  Book, People, Reason

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.19, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  Yehuda Berg

  Littles, Effects, Interconnected

  Twitter post from Sep 07, 2016

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• Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.

  Sandra Newman

  Giving, People, Taste

  Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage

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• The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Military, Character, Men

  Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”

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• I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.

  William Moseley

  Adventure, Pieces, Narnia

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