“I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.” WorldWayPersonsRunningActionWantedFitHealthyProveBreathsCollapseHealthy Person Author:Kaya Scodelario
“In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.” UseEyeActionEmotionDirectorsBreathsTechniqueCaptureAngleSweepingVistas Author:Stephen Hunter
“The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.” FactsRealityActionConsciousStandingBreathsFollowingBowlsMy ThoughtsWashingWondrousStanding ThereThoughts And Actions Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247 Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247
“Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.” ActionWonderEvolutionYogaBreathsStructureConstantDepthRepetitionSequencePredeterminedGreat FreedomMinutiaePrana Author:David F. Swensen
“Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.” KnowsMenPlayShowsSeemsMightEyeActionTogetherFormMotherBlackGriefShapesRiversBreathsMoodSuitsWoeNot AloneSolemnCloaksWindyGood MotherDejected Author:William Shakespeare
“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.” MenMindMayUseActionYoungLife IsTeachConsciousHundredDiedBreathsSensesLengthFacultyBuriedLife Death Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.” WorldBelieveSoulSelfActionLeadershipUnitedLeaderVisionSacrificeStageBreathsRealizationJustifyResentmentCreedsFrustratedIndispensableGrandeurDefianceSelf SacrificeKindlesMake BelieveTransitoryCertitude Author:Eric Hoffer
“Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world” WorldTwoBookEnoughActionSpiritJesusSocialChristHoursReligiousPrayerKnowledgeHolyBreathsInsightTheologyAtmosphereKneesHoly SpiritEncountersMidstPreacherSacramentsBentOxygenAltarsTanksFoulTheologicalReviveKneelingSocial Action Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.” IfsKnowsDoneHandsActionLearningFateRiskTeachingBreathsKnow MeSeize The Day Author:Anita Baker
“Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.” MenChildrenMatterMomentsActionFallJesusBornDifferencesDarkSimpleDestinySkyHe ManWallColdSingingMy FriendsHotBreathsOur ChildrenBreatheAccidentsFatsOccasionsThat MomentChipsOur ActionsHot DaysCold Days Book:White Teeth Source: White Teeth