Quotes by Authors - Page 218

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.
Abbie Hoffman
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
Donald G. Mitchell
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't read what they write don't ask them what they believe just observe what they do.
Ashley Montagu
Ideas are powerful things requiring not a studious contemplation but an action even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Dector
If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F Kennedy
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Fuller
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anonymous
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
Through the picture I see reality. Through the word I understand it.
Sven Lidman
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
After all is said and done more is said than done.
Anonymous
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds which is what at heart - bless 'em - they are.
J.B. Priestley
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
Lilli Palmer
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.
T.S Eliot
All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.
Beryl Pfizer
If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
Katharine Hepburn
From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
Maxwell Anderson
You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.
Kenneth Haigh
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
Bette Davis
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
Stephen Leacock
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
William T. Wylie
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
Arthur Gingold
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Clive James
Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.
Anonymous
An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.
Alva Johnston
An actor is a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
George Glass
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
Thomas Fuller
A wise man knows everything a shrewd one everybody.
Anonymous
I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
Erica Jong
We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.
Harvey Mindess
Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
Smiley Blanton
Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.
Henry S. Haskins
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
G.K. Chesterton
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes
Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Acceptance says True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblink-ingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
Catharine Marshall
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.
Edelgard
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
Thomas Fuller
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Boethius
Competition is about passion for perfection and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
Mariah Burton Nelson
We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee
Woman must not accept she must challenge.
Margaret Sanger
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.
Carl Jung
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
Anonymous
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
Boethius
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. LeGuin