"To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions."
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"On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day."
"Taking action births motivation."
"I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles."
"The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place."
"These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle."
"It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration that have left the US government remarkably isolated, feared and often hated to an extent with no historical precedent."
"I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not."
"A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner."
"Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well."
"The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action."
"We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being."
"But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions."
"I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary."
"Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by."
"To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions."
"A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence."
"The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical."
"By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent."
"Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye."