#action

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#battle #course #into #men #men and women

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' ↗

— Sean Parker

#assistant #before #conversation #dinner #does

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#alienated #conscious #divorced #expressed #feeling

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#get #honest #loyalty #once #only

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Jean Paul

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #good #good action

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #beliefs #different #different beliefs #distinguished

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. ↗

— Sean Penn

#along #government #line #me #somewhere

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#bespeaks #brings #confidence #cooperation #honor

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i