A Quotes
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“An active life has a way of changing your mind and revolutionizing your perspective.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“An active life is perfectly in keeping with Self-realization and divine service. What is needed is a total dedication of your entire life to Him. In all situations maintain a steady consciousness of Divinity within and about you. Do not harass your mind with thoughts of weakness. Infinite strength is within you. Drawing inspiration and power from this source, be cheerful and contented at all times. Let the Name of the Lord dwell ever in your mind!”
Source: The Essential Swami Ramdas
“An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize value is creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man’s attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity-even under the most difficult circumstances- to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified, and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
Do not think that these considerations are unworldly and too far removed from real life. It is true that only a few people are capable of reaching such high moral standards. Of the prisoners only a few kept their full inner liberty and obtained those values which their suffering afforded, but even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate. Such men are not only in concentration camps. Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.”
“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”
“An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.”
Source: Lover Unbound
“An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.”
Source: Lover Unbound: Number 5 in series
“An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.”
“An active orchestrator of life acknowledges missteps, but is nimble in pivoting in the direction of improvement.”
“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”
“An activist fights the system, a reformer manipulates it.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“An activist is always broke,
a philanthropist is always rich.
That's the difference between
service and a publicity stunt.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.”
“An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.”
Source: My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
“An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.”
“An activist produces power and policy change, not mental change. If a person has no record of power or policy change, then that person is not an activist.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“An activist who protested with Akufo-Addo in the Rawlings era, Charles Wereko-Brobbey, thinks Akufo-Addo's presidency has been worse than the Rawlings regime…. . In an interview for this book, Wereko-Brobbey said the things he said and wrote in the Rawlings era and went home without ever being arrested would have got him in serious trouble in the Akufo-Addo presidency.”
Source: The President Ghana Never Got
“An activity without results is a waste”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking at yourself.”
“An actor always goes to the safe side.”
“An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.”
“An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.”
“An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.”
Source: Al Pacino
“An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.”
“An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.”
“An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.”
Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies
“An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.”
“An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.”
“An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.”
“An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.”
“An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”
“An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.”
“An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.”
“An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.”
“An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.”
“An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.”
“An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you are supposed to stand, and the dialogue is already decided on. If you want to make a change and contribute something, it has to be approved by a number of people.”
“An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.”
“An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.”
“An actor has to embody a role.”
“An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.”
“An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.”
Source: The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories
“An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”
“An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.”
“An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.”
“An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.”
“An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.”
“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.”
Source: Blessings in Disguise
“An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.”