Quotes About Action

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

Humans aren't going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you're dead, you'll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren't holding any paper.

watched the setting sun as it sent bursts of colors across the sky as he thought about the question. "Because what we choose to do between the two is entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all given the exact same amount of time but what differs is how we utilize it.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

Without action there cannot be a tragedy; there may be without character.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Hence the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.

Since the objects of imitation are men in action, and these men must be either of a higher or a lower type (for moral character mainly answers to these divisions, goodness and badness being the distinguishing marks of moral differences), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are.

Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.

Dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement.

But most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action.