Action Quote by John Dewey

“The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.”

John Dewey

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

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Every thought I have imprisioned in expression I must free by my deeds

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It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

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As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to…

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It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United…

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For comedy action, I must know the language.

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

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“Action is a powerful thing. When you smile through your sadness, it can completely change your outlook. Try it! Smile :) Now hold onto…

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