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"Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it." »Unknown
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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action." »Eric Hoffer
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"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." »Michael Levine
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"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." »Michael Hanson
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." »Joel Barker
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"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?" »Alfred A. Montapert
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery." »Henry Miller
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"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." »Midge Dector
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"The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen
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"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas
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"On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
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"On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." »Eric Hoffer
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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 ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." »Vaclav Havel
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"Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom." »W. M. L. Jay
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"We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless…We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action…No action." »Michael Jackson
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"Vision without action is a daydream. action without vision is a nightmare." »Japanese Proverb
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"One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Vision without action is a daydream. action with without vision is a nightmare." »Japanese Proverb
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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." »Frank Tibolt
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