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“There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.”

People Way Needs Giving Should Ideas Government Able Action Used Powerful Clear Information Website

Author:Eli Pariser

“I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.”

Feels Kids Able Action Figures Ready Action Figures

Author:Caleb Landry Jones

“When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.”

Thinking Want Kids Able Action Together Enjoy

Author:Ben Stiller

“The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.”

People World States Bigs Able Action President United United States Involved

Author:William J. Clinton

“If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.”

Ifs Men Able Action Sound Activity Satisfied Thee Heroic Expecting Live Happy

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.”

Mean Able Action Knowing Authority Responsible

Author:Janet Reno

“It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.”

Mean Able Action Courses Pay Maturity Urges Gratification Immediate Gratification

Author:Ann Landers

“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”

People May Character Stories Seems Able Action Interesting Audience Personality Theatre Rings Animation Interesting Things Unreal

Author:Walt Disney

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Able Action Force Half Behavior Tough Performances Management Unions Managers Improving Jest

Author:Peter Drucker

“Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.”

Men Able Action Virtue Citizens Selfish Charm Savages Inviting

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.”

Thinking World Looks Ideas Use Able Action Film Adventure Limitless Playgrounds Cinematic

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”

Men Able Action Individual Ability Environment Information Depends Future Behavior Fairs Flow Bases Rational Data Outcomes Feds Sanity Hinges

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.”

Persons States Shows Able Action School Desire Order Opinion Particular Expression Mere Officials Justify Freedom Of Speech Discomfort Prohibition Viewpoints Accompany

Author:Abe Fortas

“There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.”

People Should Able Action Conditions Stage Mass Theatre Emergence Auditoriums

Author:Romain Rolland

“Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.”

World Giving Kind Able Action Existence Conscious Remains Entirety Humanness

Author:Georges Bataille

“The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.”

Men Able Action Moral Defects

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.”

Wells Government Would Be Able Action Speak Given Known Essentials Judgment Bravery Characteristics Captains Well Known Assistance Superfluous

Book:A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott

Source: A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott

“Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.”

Ifs Mean Able Action Young Understanding Consciousness Effects Performances Minorities Transformed Young Women

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

Feels Mean Littles Character Able Action Success Acting Encouragement Little Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”

“I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.”

Matter Play Character Able Action Turns Audience Ego Losing

Author:Neil Simon

“Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.”

Bigs Able Action Success Individual Steps Projects Completion Errands

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success