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Act Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
- The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
- Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.…
- No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism…
- Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden