#action

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. ↗

— Felix Adler

#animating #comforting #past #speaks #stirring

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#also #calculated #mathematically #quality #stupid

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#because #divorce #going #i #i am

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#i #i love #like #live #love

Good managers have a bias for action. ↗

— Tom Peters

#bias #good #good managers #managers

Action is the foundational key to all success. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#action #foundational #key

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#gave #puritans #thought #world

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#among #aware #becomes #cause #causes

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#child #during #earliest #familiar #himself