#act

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#because #become #derive #her #his

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#attracted #bad #ignorant #learned #person

Intentions count in your actions. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#count #intentions #your

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#fact #hinders #individual #logically #means

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animated #animated films #canned #emotions #films

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anyone #makes #plans #reactionary #revolution

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #course #events #influence #least

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#already #aspect #based #being #characteristic

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real. ↗

— Jonathan Bennett

#before #character #girl #girlfriend #i

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' ↗

— Harvey Ball

#catch #catch phrase #day #for the day #help