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“Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.”

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Book:The North Water

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“Here's what I want you to learn from this: Never let someone answer a question for you. Jump in with anything at all to make sure hat you're the one talking. Say, 'That's an interesting question', or 'I'm glad you asked that question,' or 'Oh goody, my favorite subject.' Say anything that will guarantee that you're in the conversation about yourself and not out of it like a teenager standing next to her mother at a cocktail party. You must tell your own story, never let someone, even someone as familiar to you as your sister-in-law think she knows you better than you know yourself. She only sees what you do, she doesn't' see who you are inside. If I regret anything when I look back, it's how often I allowed people to think what they wanted to thing. I should've stopped them sort. I should've laughed at their assumptions. I should've hooted with laughter, 'Hoo hoo hoo,' and followed with twinkling, mischievous smile just to throw them off, just to keep them guessing, The problem is they watch what you do, who you love, how you cook, what you read and what you don't read, and they decide what it means, and sometimes you're not there to stop them, or you get the timing wrong. I've always wondered why people look so much to action for meaning. When people tell you a story, something that happened to them, something important, don't ask them what they did , ask them what they wanted to do, what they want to do is who they are. Actions are whispers compared to dreams.”

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Book:Lillian on Life

Source: Lillian on Life

“I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.”

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Book:Murder Is Easy

Source: Murder Is Easy

“Leadership calls for both wisdom and courage; the wisdom to know what to do is only half the battle. We must be courageous enough to actually do it.”

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Author:Kellen Roggenbuck

“There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love.”

Love Action Fear Gratitude Anger Greed

Author:Sesan Kareem

“An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.”

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Action Growth Personal Growth Self Development Goal Setting Knowledge Of Self Action Taking

Author:Tony Curl

“Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.”

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Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!”

“Action achieves ambition.”

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“Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.”

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