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«It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Choice,
Death and dying,
Living,
Pleasure,
Thought
| Keywords:
courses
«I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Action,
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
also known as, apply, been, being, Did you know, Do, doing, done up, enough, have, impressed, impresses, impressing, is, is not, knowing, must, musts, not, The, The More You Know, urgencies, urgency, willing, with
«I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.»
«I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
bewail, bewailed, bewailing, ceaseless, ridicule, scorn
«I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.»
«I have to act to live.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Action
«I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Action,
Miracles
| Keywords:
another planet, dancer, exotic, imitated, phenomenon, wave
«I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.»
«I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Action,
Belief,
Compassion,
Dignity,
Ideas,
Inventions,
Purpose
| Keywords:
Action The, Human dignity, Human heart, invention, national, The Source
«It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
considered, games, noted, serious, The Games
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