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Act Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
- Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
- Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,…
- You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can…
- When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they…
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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