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«We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.»
Author: Frank Tibolt
| About:
Action,
Inspiration
| Keywords:
generates, generating, inspiration, inspirations, seldom, start, taught, wait
«We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of»
«We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.»
«We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Action,
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
associate, freed, naturally, to be sure
«We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.»
Author: Peter Brooks
| About:
Action,
Living
| Keywords:
anticipating, completed, immerse, immersed, immersing, intersection, narrative, narratives, outcome, projects, reassess, reassessing, recount, recounted, recounting, several, situate, situated, situating
«We talk on principle, but we act on interest»
«We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea»
«We must be doing something to be happy.»
«We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
being brave, brave, braver, Braves, braving, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, equal, generous, joy, patchwork, sin, sorrow
«We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
benefactors, contracts, fall into, justly, numbered, remembered
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