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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P -
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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