Quotes with action-oriented

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Gore Vidal As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Noam Chomsky As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Phil McGraw Awareness without action is worthless.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Akhenaton Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Toni Morrison Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Arthur Henderson But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Arthur Herzog But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Will Rogers Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Barney Frank Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Pythagoras Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Bo Bennett Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Mack R. Douglas Courage follows action.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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  • Napoleon Hill Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Archibald Macleish Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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