action

1161.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

- Dinsah, H.Jay

1162.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

1163.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

- Horton, Doug

1164.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

- Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

1165.

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

- Murphy, Joseph Edward

1166.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

- Quarles, Francis

1167.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

- Rushdie, Salman

1168.

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

- Watson, Thomas J.

1169.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

- Hugo, Victor

1170.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

1171.

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

- Kempis, Thomas

1172.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

- Dyson, Freeman

1173.

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

- Goodman, Paul

1174.

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

- Gordimer, Nadine

1175.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

- Ann Radcliffe

1176.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

- Frank Herbert

1177.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

- Havel, Vaclav

1178.

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

- Didion, Joan

1179.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

- Breton, Andre

1180.

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

- Virgil