#action

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#aim #education #great #knowledge

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#being #better #better mother #day #doing

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#late #never #never too late #now #something

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#adventure #compelling #creative #finds #high

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#doomed #equivalent #failure #human #human actions

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#action #child #every #expression #facial

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#hope #instant #reaction #results #spread