Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and… — James Randi Copy Share Image
When we say anything is possible or nothing is impossible, we definitely exclude fantasies. Next, we should also take into account the… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
What separates people that create from the people that don't is just one's ability to take action despite the fear, you know?… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and… — Irene Parlby Copy Share Image
After decades of research, I've personally concluded that perhaps the single most effective police action for crowd control would be for the… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been… — Lewis William Walt Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism:… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the… — James P Comer Copy Share Image
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
“The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way -… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image