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"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
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