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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The history of mankind is his character.
History and Historians
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Goals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Thoughts and Thinking
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
Action
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Secrets
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Attitude
Thaddeus Golas

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Acting and Actors
Jeff Goldblum

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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Fools and Foolishness
Oliver Goldsmith

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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Agreement
Samuel Goldwyn

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That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Advertising
Samuel Goldwyn

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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Enjoyment
Paul Goodman

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Action
Heber J. Grant

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Act quickly, think slowly.
Action
Greek Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Income
Greek Proverb

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The beginning is the half of every action.
Beginning
Greek Proverb

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
Learning
St. Gregory The Great

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Information
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Acting is happy agony.
Acting and Actors
Sir Alec Guiness

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Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.
Illusion
Gutzkow

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Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
Feminism
J. S. Habgood

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Lies and Lying
Alexander Haig

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Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
Practice
George Halas

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun