#action

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#always #another #being #consists #dead

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #conditions #confession #contrition #good

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#always #bears #cease #equal #genius

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#even #fairy-tale #had #hollow #lot

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#action #attention #both #cases #choice

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#being #called #class #games #human

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#afraid #break #car #drive #guts

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#end #great #knowledge #life

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#believe #business #competitive #cost #demand

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. ↗

— Russell Baker

#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture