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Act Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five
- Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.
- The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or…
- I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
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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
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- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
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