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Action Quotes
"God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it."
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"Act-act in the living present!"
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"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
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"If you want a thing done go if not send."
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"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
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"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."
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"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
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"What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency."
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"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative."
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"It is our action that determines the viability of our dream."
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"Do something,get something. Do nothing,get nothing. Doing is the beginning of being. Being is the beginning of achieving. Achieving is the essence of living and living is the spices of life."
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"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
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"If it is to BE.. it's up to ME. Time for SWIFT ACTION! id your best mindset reset."
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"Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action."
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"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
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"The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue."
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"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."
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"You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it."
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"She skidded around a corner, slamming her shoulder into the wall and bouncing off of it without slowing. Caleb?Silence. Forty-six meters. A long stretch of hallway. She pushed faster, harder. Twenty meters.She burst into the room in unison with a deafening crash of metal shearing metal."
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
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"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."
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"All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects."
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"Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!"
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"Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act."
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"I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."
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"But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification, for it is in the painful process of this translation that we identify who are our allies with whom we have grave differences, and who are our genuine enemies."
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"I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action."
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
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