#act

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ↗

— Aristotle

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ↗

— Aristotle

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ↗

— Aristotle

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. ↗

— Aristotle

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

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I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

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I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. ↗

— Alan Arkin

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Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

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