Act Quotes
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The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
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I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.
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In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
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The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.
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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
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You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.
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But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.
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There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
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It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.
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So act that anything you do may become universal law.
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Article 11 of the NPT states that if we are threatened, we can act in secret.
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I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.
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I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
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You come out of a meeting and you've put on a mask, which involves looking people in the eye, using certain mannerisms, certain phrases. Even if you learn to do it in a very seamless sort of way, you're still putting on an act. It's a very ex-hausting act.
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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
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When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well.
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Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.
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It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.