For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’
Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
I don’t think I’m a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
You don’t have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
The ‘Protect America First Act’ is critical to secure our Southern border, conserve American culture, and defend U.S. sovereignty.
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others.
I’m not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
There’s a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they’re wearing. I’m not gonna act all ashamed of it.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
I am an engineer by profession, but I knew I wanted to act. My parents always encouraged me, and when my father shifted to Mumbai for work for a brief while, I came along.
Just live life. That’s the best way to learn how to act. Just live.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
A dynamic team cannot rely solely on orders; they must be able to read each others’ every move so they can act as parts of a coordinated whole.
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there’s something wrong with my act.
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
It is often more important to act than to understand… there are times… when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others.
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I’d end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I’d do plays.
Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.
When I put on my Marine cover, I’m a Marine, and I act accordingly.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
I love picture books – with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.
I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
I don’t try to hide who I am when I appear in public places, act, or attend interviews. If I do, it makes the gap even wider. I like it best when someone says I’m the same on television, on camera, or off camera. This makes it easier for me.
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
I can’t act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It’s about what’s right. And it’s about time.
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we’re afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
If you don’t think a small act can make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.
There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted.
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns.
Art is about profundity. It’s about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Mainstream media is the enemy… but now it’s time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.
