action

661.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

- Rita Mae Brown

662.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

663.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

- Russell L. Ackoff

664.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

- Salvador Dali

665.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

666.

Hard work's a good distraction.

- Scott Westerfeld

667.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

- Sean O'Casey

668.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

- Seneca

669.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

- Shakespeare

670.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

- Shakespeare, William

671.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

- Shakespeare, William

672.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

- Sharon Salzberg

673.

The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peace and well being. To expect a person to go against his desire to feel good or as good as he can feel under any momentary condition is illogical and irrational. In the observation of human behavior, one will notice every human act is a response to a personal need. This is true whether one signs a million dollar contract, scratches one's nose, rolls over in bed, or just day dreams his life away. People will do things which seem contrary to this concept, but the bottom line is they perceive some kind of payoff which will make them feel good. And the payoff is almost always emotional. When you ask people why they want to be financially independent, they might say that they could buy things without having to worry about where the money will come from. And when they worry, they don't FEEL GOOD. A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult.

- Sidney Madwed

674.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

- Sir Winston Churchill

675.

Words divide us, actions unite us.

- Slogan of the Tupamaros

676.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

- Socrates

677.

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

- Sterne

678.

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3 8 of a paragraph.

- S°ren Kierkegaard

679.

Deal with the consequences of your actions,'cause life ain't no video game.

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

680.

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

- Thomas a Kempis