Quotes About Act

We are what we pretend to be.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...

Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can only influence them to be more, or less, like one of their own selves. In other words, he's never understood.

C]harity [...], unlike the lower forms of love, [...] is not an emotion. It begins as an act of the will and is consummated as a purely spiritual awareness, a unitive love-knowledge of the essence of its object.

Any act, if in accordance with the will, is an act of magic.

The glow left by the sun is like a good act done, she thought; or like love, which left the same warm signature behind it.

Every act of kindness is another step up Heaven's stairway.

We have been taught that forgiveness is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers. It is also taught that forgiveness means to overlook, to act as though a thing had not occurred. This is not true either.

There are some who side with Belushi in his disputes with Beatts and Shuster, saying the sketches they were writing, especially early on, simply weren't that good and that he was right to reject them. Marilyn Miller is one who endorses that theory. Miller found that John would jump at parts that gave him a chance to act. "More than anything," Miller says, "he wanted to succeed at that.

Of course," said Boyd wryly. "You act as if none of us have ever participated in a telepathic séance run by an alien AI before.

you're right. You're no hero if your act of bravery only makes things worse.

Husbandry is the careful management of resources - It is stewardship. And when someone undertakes to husband a woman, he must understand that it cannot be done unless he acts with authority.

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God's life in us.

metawriting can be viewed as "the act of doing something outside of the game in order to impact what is actually occurring in the game.

I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.

UK's Protection of Freedoms Act of 2012 guaranteeing parents that their permission would be asked before biometric data was taken from a child, it was estimated that roughly a third of Britain's schoolchildren have been duped into

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Meditation is a social and political act. Listening and not-doing are actions far more powerful than most of us have yet begun to realize.

It's better to do something rather than talk about it. Don't you think?