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955 quotesPatience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Patience
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Power
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Arts and Artists
Anthony Burgess
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Facts
Edmund Burke
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Fear
Edmund Burke
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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Purpose
Leo Buscaglia
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Acting and Actors
Lord Byron
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
Action
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Rebellion
Albert Camus
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Albert Camus
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Life, Lust For
Albert Camus
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Arts and Artists
Al Capp
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Doubt
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Behavior
Thomas Carlyle
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Insights
Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Advice
Thomas Carlyle
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The actual well seen is ideal.
Ideals and Idealism
Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Fear
Thomas Carlyle
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Purpose
Thomas Carlyle
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Spirit and Spirituality
Thomas Carlyle
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Enthusiasm
Dale Carnegie
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Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Acting and Actors
Jim Carrey
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun