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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
-Martha Graham
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
-Martha Graham
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
-Antonio Gramsci
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
-Heber J. Grant
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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
-Dennis Green
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You have to make it happen.
-Joe Greene
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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
-Robert Greene
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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
-Judge Learned Hand
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
-Mark Victor Hansen
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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck
-David Hasselhoff
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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
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Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
-William Hazlitt
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
-William Hazlitt
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
-William Hazlitt
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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
-Heinrich Heine
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Many are called but few get up.
-Oliver Herford
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
-Napoleon Hill
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
-Napoleon Hill
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
-Napoleon Hill
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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
-Napoleon Hill
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
-Napoleon Hill
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One of the marks of a 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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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
-Eric Hoffer
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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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Books about Action(s)
