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Letter "A" » Action
«An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.»
«Aman who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he?s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.»
Author: Georges Clemenceau
| About:
Action
«A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Leadership
| Keywords:
Almost always, crisis, subconsciously
«As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.»
Author: John Maxwell
(Author, motivational speaker)
| About:
Action,
Change,
Thinking
| Keywords:
behaviour, changing, immediately
«All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
sentiments, weigh
«A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Desire
| Keywords:
achieving, presuppose, presupposes
«All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.»
«All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall»
«An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.»
«Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Action,
Communication,
Movies
| Keywords:
animation, appreciation, conceive, devised, explicit, facility, quick, versatile
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