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| You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions. Adlin Sinclair Quotes |
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| To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France Quotes |
| We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles R. Swindoll Quotes |
| Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. Chamfort Quotes |
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| If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed Voltaire Quotes |
| We cannot really think in one way and act in another... Thomas Troward Quotes |
| Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. Dr. Robert Anthony Quotes |
| Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. Shaquille ONeal Quotes |
| The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces. Patsy Cline Quotes |
| Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles F. Kettering Quotes |
| Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. Christina Baldwin Quotes |
| Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. William Hutchinson Murray Quotes |
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| I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Voltaire Quotes |
| Act as if it were impossible to fail Dorthea Brande Quotes |
| One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. Henry Miller Quotes |
| Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| To act is easy; to think is hard Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted Aesop Quotes |
| Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. Bill Cosby Quotes |
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| To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything. George Lois Quotes |
| To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. Janeane Garofalo Quotes |
| I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. Norbet Platt Quotes |
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| It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle Quotes |
| Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Every obnoxious act is a cry for help. Zig Ziglar Quotes |
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| There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. Scout Cloud Lee Quotes |
| You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. Jerome Brunner Dr. Quotes |
| Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. Marva Collins Quotes |
| Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. Leonard Cohen Quotes |
| The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. Alfred C. Kinsey Quotes |
| It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly Anatole France Quotes |
| Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer Quotes |
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| How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Joseph Schwartz Quotes |
| Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters Seneca Quotes |
| Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a GOd. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. "Be and Make." Let this be our Motto. Swami Vivekananda Quotes |
| The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. Ralph Ellison Quotes |
| Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. Buddha Quotes |
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| The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
| A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat? Chanakya Quotes |
| When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Cynthia Heimel Quotes |
| Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic Dale Carnegie Quotes |
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| Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James Quotes |
| I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. Johnny Depp Quotes |
| Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov Quotes |
| As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. John Maxwell Quotes |
| Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus Quotes |
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| A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. Buddha Quotes |
| Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude Confucius Quotes |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle Quotes |
| The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day, but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. Barbara De Angelis Quotes |
| Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy Dale Carnegie Quotes |
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| I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. Gerard Way Quotes |
| Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. Joan Borysenko Quotes |
| Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Ned Rorem Quotes |
| We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. Anais Nin Quotes |
| Teaching is the greatest act of optimism Colleen Wilcox Quotes |
| A library implies an act of faith Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow. T.S. Eliot Quotes |
| Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. George Clemenceau Quotes |
| Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie Quotes |
| Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. Marva Collins Quotes |
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| We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines Erich Fromm Quotes |
| Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman. Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes |
| God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers. Richard Holloway Quotes |
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| The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. Albert Camus Quotes |
| In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. Dave Barry Quotes |
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| The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
| No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop Quotes |
| The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. Chamfort Quotes |
| I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Act quickly, think slowly. Greek proverb Quotes |
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| What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs Henry Miller Quotes |
| All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. Anais Nin Quotes |
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| Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Quotes |
| The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. Confucius Quotes |
| Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca Quotes |
| Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams Quotes |
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| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a man Leonor Kretzer Sullivan Quotes |
| A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. General George S. Patton Quotes |
| Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes |
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| The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart Quotes |
| Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. Corrie Ten Boom Quotes |
| Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours. Dr. Robert Anthony Quotes |
| We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. Gary Ryan Blair Quotes |
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| Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller Quotes |
| The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it Petronius Quotes |
| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato Quotes |
| When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| That's an act, that's a frying pan, that's a stove, you're an alcoholic! Dude, I'm tripping right now, and I still see that that's a fucking egg, alright? I see the UFO's around it, but that's a goddamn egg in the middle. There's a hobbit eating it, but goddammit that hobbit's eating a fucking egg! He's on a unicorn. But, no, th-th-th-that's a fucking egg. How dare you have a wino tell me not to do drugs! Bill Hicks Quotes |
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| Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Andrea Dworkin Quotes |
| Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing. William Faulkner Quotes |
| Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Doug Horton Quotes |
| For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros Ethel Barrymore Quotes |
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| Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. Jerry Rubin Quotes |
| Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. Johan Huizinga Quotes |
| In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race John Stuart Mill Quotes |
| Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
| During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act George Orwell Quotes |
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| Be content to act, and leave the talking to others Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the resultma sangostu akramani--without succumbing to inaction) Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
| Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. Donna A. Favors Quotes |
| Each Time you step off your path and give someone an act of kindness...then your road to Happiness just got a little Smoother. Donna A. Favors Quotes |
| Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Kempis Quotes |
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| We're actors. We're the opposite of people. Tom Stoppard Quotes |
| Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. Frederick Henry Hedge Quotes |
| The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. Robert Anderson Quotes |
| When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. Samuel Ullman Quotes |
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| If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois Quotes |
| I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. David Letterman Quotes |
| Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs Quotes |
| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. Thomas Paine Quotes |
| To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. Erica Jong Quotes |
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| My cat speaks sign language with her tail. Robert A. M. Stern Quotes |
| Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself Katharine Hepburn Quotes |
| I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles Quotes |
| Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller Quotes |
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| I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. Alfred Hitchcock Quotes |
| We talk on principle, but we act on interest Walter Savage Landor Quotes |
| The most sublime act is to set another before you. William Blake Quotes |
| If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. Thornton Wilder Quotes |
| A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. George Clemenceau Quotes |
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| I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. Jack Nicholson Quotes |
| Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. John Gielgud Quotes |
| I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles Quotes |
| Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. Kwame Nkrumah Quotes |
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| I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side Audre Lorde Quotes |
| Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. Shirley Booth Quotes |
| Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life. Glenda Jackson Quotes |
| An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life. Helen Hayes Quotes |
| Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham Quotes |
| An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
| Acting is happy agony. Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
| Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable. Thomas Troward Quotes |
| When watching a Steve Mcqueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died Yogi Berra Quotes |
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| Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees. Bob Nelson Quotes |
| Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George F. Burns Quotes |
| The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud Quotes |
| Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham Quotes |
| The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
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| My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had announced that he'd gone 3 days without sleep in order to 'become' his character Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
| Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the wil Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
| A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. S Dalai Lama Quotes |
| Think globally, act locally Paul McCartney Quotes |
| So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey. W. C. Fields Quotes |
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| A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. Albert Pike Quotes |
| The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. William Godwin Quotes |
| If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. William Hazlitt Quotes |
| When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. Harold Macmillan Quotes |
| The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday. Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
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| I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him. Lisa Marie Presley Quotes |
| The best actors do not let the wheels show. Milan Kundera Quotes |
| It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one Anatole France Quotes |
| The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center. Lao Tzu Quotes |
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| Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. Alyssa Milano Quotes |
| We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about Charles Kingsley Quotes |
| Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life Denzel Washington Quotes |
| One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think Hannah Arendt Quotes |
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| One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals. I Ching Quotes |
| I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes |
| Acting is a way of living out one's insanity. Isabelle Huppert Quotes |
| If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience. Jack Lemon Quotes |
| An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening Marlon Brando Quotes |
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| Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes Carly Fiorina Quotes |
| A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative. Scott Caan Quotes |
| The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it Sophia Loren Quotes |
| Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome Quotes |
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| It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. Karl von Clausewitz Quotes |
| The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin? Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
| Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
| Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. Anna Pavlova Quotes |
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| Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. Bette Davis Quotes |
| You know ... acting is not very difficult, once you know how to do it, ... And that's ... so beautiful, because you can say that about anything: It's not difficult, once you know how. Christopher Walken Quotes |
| Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. Washington Irving Quotes |
| We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. Emile Durkheim Quotes |
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| Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man. Paul Robeson Quotes |
| Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Paulo Coelho Quotes |
| Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles. Og Mandino Quotes |
| All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
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| I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor! Josh Hartnett Quotes |
| I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary. Julia Roberts Quotes |
| I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you. Nicole Kidman Quotes |
| My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve! Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
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| The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. Amelia Earhart Quotes |
| For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts. Thora Birch Quotes |
| No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka Quotes |
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| Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson Quotes |
| Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. Rosalind Russell Quotes |
| Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter F. Drucker Quotes |
| What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
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| I never act my characters - I am them. Drew Barrymore Quotes |
| Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. Ellen Barkin Quotes |
| I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.' Harrison Ford Quotes |
| To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, Horace Walpole Quotes |
| It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes |
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| An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle Quotes |
| Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen. Ben Kingsley Quotes |
| The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. Brian Tracy Quotes |
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| He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence William Blake Quotes |
| Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act The Talmud Quotes |
| You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow Harriet Martineau Quotes |
| Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. Ralph Richardson Quotes |
| Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother! Bette Davis Quotes |
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| The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. Arthur Helps Quotes |
| I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| The art of acting is to be other than what you are. Whoopi Goldberg Quotes |
| I shall never act differently, even if I have to die for it many times Socrates Quotes |
| War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. George Washington Quotes |
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| As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage-it is an audience. R. Z. Sheppard Quotes |
| I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide. Mark Twain Quotes |
| What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
| I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
| Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche. Lesley Conger Quotes |
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| Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. Al Bernstein Quotes |
| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star. Estelle Winwood Quotes |
| To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. James Dean Quotes |
| A lot of what acting is paying attention. Nancy Reagan Quotes |
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| Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M. F. K. Fisher Quotes |
| If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. Maria Montessori Quotes |
| Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
| I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. Arsenio Hall Quotes |
| Are you a canadian? Oh, cause your sure as heck acting like one! Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes |
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| “A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.” Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. Dan Millman Quotes |
| Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. Thornton Wilder Quotes |
| So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving Quotes |
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| Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. Josephine Hull Quotes |
| I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be... Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
| Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their be Lao Tzu Quotes |
| The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. Barry Goldwater Quotes |
| When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. Clark Moustakas Quotes |
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| A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil Quotes |
| More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. Simone Weil Quotes |
| There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. Gore Vidal Quotes |
| I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become. Julia Roberts Quotes |
| I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
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| It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France Quotes |
| I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. Bette Davis Quotes |
| They're for tax cuts and against them. They're for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They're for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. They're in favor of liberating Iraq, and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts. George W. Bush Quotes |
| I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. Brigitte Bardot Quotes |
| Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. George Eliot Quotes |
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| Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. Jeremy Irons Quotes |
| We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act. Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
| The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day. Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
| To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. Maxwell Maltz Quotes |
| There are no small parts. Only small actors. Milan Kundera Quotes |
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| CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: - by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. Anthony Burgess Quotes |
| There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote Quotes |
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| The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes |
| When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated. Ralph Nader Quotes |
| Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. James Agate Quotes |
| My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
| Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
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| Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. Bette Davis Quotes |
| The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly Corra Harris Quotes |
| In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. J. William Fulbright Quotes |
| Act, and God will act Joan of Arc Quotes |
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| The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. Phillip Brooks Quotes |
| Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. Katharine Hepburn Quotes |
| Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life Norman Cousins Quotes |
| It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. D.H. Lawrence Quotes |
| If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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| Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. Brigham Young Quotes |
| Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning Chris Cavanaugh Quotes |
| Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily... Thomas S. Szasz Quotes |
| I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits Dustin Hoffman Quotes |
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| If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want-except neurosurgery. Sharon Stone Quotes |
| Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed Roberto Rossellini Quotes |
| Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream. Jorge Luis Borges Quotes |
| Good people do not need laws to act responsibly, while bad people need laws to break them. Plato Quotes |
| I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. Kurt Cobain Quotes |
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| Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five Arthur Koestler Quotes |
| The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel Quotes |
| Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. David McKay Quotes |
| The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity Tom Peters Quotes |
| Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. Spiro Kostof Quotes |
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| In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. J. William Fulbright Quotes |
| Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
| People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part William Hazlitt Quotes |
| Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton Quotes |
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| I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. Ewan McGregor Quotes |
| Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. Jim Elliot Quotes |
| I'm terrible at metaphors or analogies. I don't know the difference, actually, ... For me, acting is like your dad teaching you to ride a bicycle. You feel totally vulnerable at first. You imagine yourself getting hurt, and the only thing that prevents you from crashing is your dad is running after you, holding on to the back of your seat. You keep looking over your shoulder at him, and he's going, 'You're doing it, kid.' And then, all of a sudden, you're, like, 'Why are you still holding on, Dad? Let go.' Joaquin Phoenix Quotes |
| The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. Paulo Coelho Quotes |
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| And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8). Bible Quotes |
| “A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.” Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. Charlie Chaplin Quotes |
| I have often been afraid, but I wouldn't give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually my fear disappeared. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. Thomas Mann Quotes |
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| The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing . Ralph Richardson Quotes |
| Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend. Ani Difranco Quotes |
| Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom Francis Bacon Sr. Quotes |
| If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James Quotes |
| Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. Deborah Tannen Quotes |
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| Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary Thomas Betterton Quotes |
| The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. Francois Truffaut Quotes |
| Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking Grace McGarvie Quotes |
| Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. John McCain Quotes |
| Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. Ben Okri Quotes |
| Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny Charles Reade Quotes |
| The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. Henryk Skolimowski Quotes |
| Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes |
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| Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence Jules Feiffer Quotes |
| I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person. Og Mandino Quotes |
| On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting Oliver Goldsmith Quotes |
| An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow Lawrence Barrett Quotes |
| You may look and act a certain way on the outside but what really counts is how you feel on the inside. Alicia Figgs Quotes |
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| If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft. Bill Nelson Quotes |
| Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri Quotes |
| For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. Marcus Aurelius Antonius Quotes |
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| A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Margaret Sanger Quotes |
| Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!' Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs Quotes |
| If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist. David Alfred Thomas Rhondda Quotes |
| Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the Winston Churchill Quotes |
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| However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. Graham Greene Quotes |
| Without acting I cannot breathe. Laurence Olivier Sir Quotes |
| I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. Michael Caine Quotes |
| My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set. Mitch Hedberg Quotes |
| Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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| Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too. Ninon de Lenclos Quotes |
| Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other. Marquis De Sade Quotes |
| Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
| This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war. George W. Bush Quotes |
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| No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| The secret of getting things done is to act. Dante Alighieri Quotes |
| The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act Thomas Paine Quotes |
| The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
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| The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him John Marshall Quotes |
| And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism. Osama bin Laden Quotes |
| There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater. Zelda Fichandler Quotes |
| All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. Dorothea Brande Quotes |
| Ah just act the way ah feel. Elvis Presley Quotes |
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| The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. Ethel Barrymore Quotes |
| How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. Gustave Flaubert Quotes |
| To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. Henri Bergson Quotes |
| Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Moliere Quotes |
| We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real William James Quotes |
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| When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested. Beyonce Knowles Quotes |
| “A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.” Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away William Shakespeare Quotes |
| The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. Reese Witherspoon Quotes |
| God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations. Robert Browning Quotes |
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| To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
| Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams Quotes |
| The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin Quotes |
| If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots Muhammad Quotes |
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| ''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource. Barbara Sher Quotes |
| When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. Bayard Rustin Quotes |
| Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease. Sam Snead Quotes |
| Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin Quotes |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. Susan Sontag Quotes |
| If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. Nelson DeMille Quotes |
| Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. Nitin Nohria Quotes |
| Telling someone the truth is a loving act. Mal Pancoast Quotes |
| Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is capable of being unjust and iniquitous. But religion being impersonal, it can be impartial, it is capable of defeating the inequity committed by law. Religion is believed to ennoble man and not degrade him. Hinduism is an exception. B. R. Ambedkar Quotes |
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| The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. Barbara Sher Quotes |
| The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. Sam Rayburn Quotes |
| An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. Fred Allen Quotes |
| Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. Jack Welch Quotes |
| Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. Marlon Brando Quotes |
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| I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'? Drew Barrymore Quotes |
| Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle. James Dean Quotes |
| Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modeling is just an image. Cameron Diaz Quotes |
| This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. Charles Krauthammer Quotes |
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| Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition Diane Sawyer Quotes |
| Just let the wardrobe do the acting Jack Nicholson Quotes |
| Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. John Cassavetes Quotes |
| Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. Marlon Brando Quotes |
| I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me? I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss why are you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even. They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again. Mike Tyson Quotes |
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| Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle Quotes |
| What if he [Hussein] fails to comply [with disarmament] and we fail to act? He will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then go right on building up his arsenal. Someday, someway, I guarantee you, he'll use that arsenal. Bill Clinton Quotes |
| I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. Morgan Freeman Quotes |
| An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.. A. P. Herbert Quotes |
| [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. Antonin Scalia Quotes |
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| The Court today completes the process of converting [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will. Antonin Scalia Quotes |
| In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife. Spike Milligan Quotes |
| According to their pre-ordained destiny, they act out their karma. Serving the True Guru, a lasting peace is found. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Quotes |
| You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself. Jack L. Warner Quotes |
| Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done." James Dean Quotes |
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| It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. Robert Motherwell Quotes |
| Arrived too late. Act already done. Nostradamus Quotes |
| Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. Marty Feldman Quotes |
| Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. Berenice Abbott Quotes |
| I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. Bette Midler Quotes |
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| I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can. Christina Aguilera Quotes |
| Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed. Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes |
| Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished Edward Coke Quotes |
| It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show. James Stewart Quotes |
| I saw this show under adverse circumstances-my seat was facing the stage. John David Klein Quotes |
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| Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI Quotes |
| War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. Karl von Clausewitz Quotes |
| Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. Bible Quotes |
