"Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently."
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"As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day."
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"Creativity is the ability to see and to respond."
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"Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?"
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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
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"To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else."
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"I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action."
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"Thought is the seed of action."
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"Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption."
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"Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered."
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"Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck."
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"I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions."
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"The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action."
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"Action is the foundation of all success."
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"There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity."
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"Stop stewing and start doing!"
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"It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse."
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"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."
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"And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act."
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"Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power."
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