As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
You’ve got to judge people, ultimately, by their actions rather than their words.
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don’t have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Maybe we shouldn’t be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.
I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it’s probably not even real. I just don’t wanna know.
No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can’t or won’t scrutinize their actions.
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
What I argue is that if I’m going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record… my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we’re going to see more of her very private world – Laura’s private experience. I’m not sure yet how public she’s going to be about the actions she’s going to have to take.
By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.
I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
I think it’s an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
My father left our family for his ‘yoga buddy’ in 1984, when I was 15. I always stayed in touch with him – I had a deep need to be connected to my father, even though it could be painful at times. I shunned the yoga community because of his actions but eventually realized that yoga could be the antidote to my pain.
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.
Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.
Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions – and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation – and our community – great.
To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact.
If we ramp up capabilities in China, including additional 737-related work, the actions that we’ll take are actions that ultimately allow us to grow jobs in the U.S.
But picketing – picketing for or against something, and handing out literature – these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.
You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
God’s designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors, and brought to justice.
Eid is here! On the first day, it is a custom for all Malaysian Muslims to ask for forgiveness from our parents. We kiss their hands and wish them ‘Selamat Hari Raya’ or ‘Eid Mubarak.’ ‘Maaf Zahir dan Batin’ means ‘to apologize in spirit and actions.’
