Act Quotes

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I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. — Jim Rogers
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge… — Robert J. Shiller
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. — Al Sharpton
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platformâ€™s native language, paying attention to context,… — Gary Vaynerchuk
If your organizationâ€™s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul,… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When one begins to reflect on philosophyâ€”then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating… — Novalis
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading â€œWhat… — Nancy Milford
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being… — Henry Giroux
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!)… — Augusto Boal
I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. — Frank Auerbach
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not. — Bill Mollison
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact… — Bill Crawford
We talk on principal, but act on motivation. — Walter Savage Landor
Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular… — Talal Asad
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation… — Robert K. Merton
Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act. — Eliphas Levi

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