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~ A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. ~

Vaclav Havel

~ As is their awareness, so is their way. According to the account of our actions, we come and go in reincarnation. ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. ~

Christopher Lasch

~ The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. ~

Norman Vincent Peale

~ It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ~

Antoine de Saint

~ I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle. ~

Martha Graham

~ When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures. ~

Sylvester Stallone

~ A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. ~

David Seabury

~ It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it. ~

Maria Jeritza

~ One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~

Dennis Gabor

~ Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't. ~

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

~ Awareness without action is worthless. ~

Phil McGraw

~ A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it ~

John Galsworthy

~ Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ~

W. H. Auden

~ When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. ~

Paul Wellstone

~ The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~

Red Auerbach

~ Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it.In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not. ~

Coleman, Ornette

~ Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. ~

Joseph Butler

~ But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ~

Niklaus Wirth

~ Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ~

Joseph Butler

~ The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ~

Mortimer Adler

~ The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life. ~

Martina Hingis

~ The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ~

William Shakespeare

~ No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. ~

Rachel Carson

~ Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ~

Conrad Hilton

~ Don't think of problems as difficulties. Think of them as opportunities for action. ~

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