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Action Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
- The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and…
- Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
- Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
- Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.…
- Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories…
- We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
More Action Quotes
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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