action

1201.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

- Lawrence, D. H.

1202.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

- Adams, John

1203.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

- Diane Ackerman

1204.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

- Frank, Anne

1205.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

- Valery, Paul

1206.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Waitley, Denis

1207.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

- Pythagoras

1208.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

- Zoroaster

1209.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

- Man, Paul De

1210.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

- Maurois, Andre

1211.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

- Meyer, Paul J.

1212.

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

- Florence Nightingale

1213.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

- Eliot, T. S.