#act

When your action is gone, and all that’s left is motionlessness, I’ll be there, whistling.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alone #lonely #motion #motionlessness #whistle

There is always a gap between intention and action.. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#action

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#strategy #thinking #action

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#progress #travel #action

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#threats #action

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#action

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#character #failure #perseverance #character

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #william-herondale #character

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#character #destiny #habits #thoughts #words

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#character #characters #ideas #impact #reading