Action Quotes
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Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
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I always feel at home doing a little bit of action.
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I'm old-school. I like action, but I want to see somebody fall in love. I want to see that life stuff.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.
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The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.
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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
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When the President makes something a priority, we see action
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It's good to be in on the action.
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Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.
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Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions.
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We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption the cross, even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.
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Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
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The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.
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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.
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I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.
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The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
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We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
