Quotes with action

Quotes 401 till 420 of 446.

  • Bela Karolyi What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Wendell Phillips What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Georges Clemenceau When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Plutarch When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ben Zobrist When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • George W. Bush When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
    Tijdens een meeting met vier senatoren, 13 sept. 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Woody Allen When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont 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.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Rosa Parks When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • William B. Given When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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  • Luigi Pirandello When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Salman Rushdie When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Miller Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bernhard Langer Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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