A Quotes
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“Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.”
Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.”
Source: Perfect Trust
“Anxiously attached people find it very difficult to break up with their partners, and, when they do, they often leave open the option of getting back together. Accordingly, elevated anxiety does not predict relationship dissolution in longitudinal studies. While attachment anxiety causes tension between partners and lowers their romantic satisfaction, it also contributes to keep them together, thus acting as a stabilizing factor as fas as long-term investment is concerned. For this reason, a small to moderate amount of anxiety is probably not inconsistent with slow strategies, especially in women.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.”
“Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.”
“Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.”
“Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!”
“Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.”
“Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.”
“Any acceptable theory must offer an explanation for all the data. The paraphysical hypothesis meets this criterion. The extraterrestrial hypothesis does not. The UFO enthusiasts have solved this problem by selecting only those sightings and events that seem to fit the extraterrestrial thesis. They have rejected a major portion of the real evidence for this reason and, in many cases, have actually suppressed (by ignoring and not publishing) events that point to some other conclusion. Once this process of selection began, the problem became more confusing and the mystery more mysterious. The UFO publications were filled with selected sightings, and professional writers preparing books and magazine articles sifted out the best of those sightings, unaware that a major part of the real data was being deliberately ignored.”
Source: Operation Trojan Horse
“Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.”
Source: The only revolution
“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.”
Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
“Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.”
Source: A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three
“Any act of division is an abomination of truth, even if it is backed up by all the facts in the world.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.”
“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”
“Any act that involves human welfare is an act of politics - as such, science can be politics, philosophy can be politics, theology can be politics - thus, anybody who acts in the interest of human welfare is a politician, whether they hold an office or not.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.”
“Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.”
“Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.”
Source: The art of Yoga
“Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.”
Source: Awaken Children Vol. 8
“Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.”
Source: From R to Z
“Any action is better than no action at all.”
Source: Power of the Plus Factor
“Any action is good action; do what you can from where you are and build off of that action each day.”
Source: No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
“Any action starts from emotions and it is in this principle that the key to change lies.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.”
“Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.”
“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
Source: The Secret History
“Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.”
“Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.”
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.”
Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays
“Any activity or effort directed toward the student's mind - influencing self-image, feelings, thoughts, consciousness, attention, decisions, and instincts - can be an incredible intervention in reversing underachievement.”
“Any activity such as dancing which involves frequent, long-term interaction with another person creates a great deal of mental, emotional, and physical memory in our being.”
“Any activity that can make you forget who you are, forget your worries, your frustration, your suffering, that activity alone can give you Happiness. There may be a few that do it to you. But the deepest level of immersion can be attained often only in that one activity – that which is your Bliss! Your Bliss always aligns you with the Energy that created you, which is why words will fail you when you try to describe it…You can only experience Bliss, it is a feeling like no other…you must live it. After all, you only have this one Life!”
“Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.”
“Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.”
“Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.”
“Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.”
“Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.”
“Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.”
“Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.”
“Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I have to make an impression with all the bursts of things I do in this show... taking the picture, shutting the door, opening the door... as long as I'm making people laugh at those moments, I feel like I'm accomplishing something.”
“Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.”
“Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule”
“Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.”
“Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.”