Best common & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.”

Feelings Action Common Steps Break Too Much Down And Reactions Overwhelming Procrastination Overwhelmed Fear Of Failure Small Actions Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”

“On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Enough Problem Hands Action Individual Difficult Common Pressure Institutions Saving Human Soul Heresy Vigorous Reconcile Hazards Coerce

Author:Jacques Barzun

“We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.”

World Done Action Ability Common Judging Succeed Spokes Words And Actions

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.”

People Action Church Common Opinion Class Danger Enjoyed Ruthless Heresy Renaissance Bourgeois Interference Suppression Inquisition Aristocratic

Book:Men of Destiny (Ppr)

Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)

“Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.”

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”

“There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.”

“...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.”

Humans Dream Action Dark Common Products Perception Common Sense Inevitable Impulsive

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.”

Giving Action Common Virtue Pride Charity Ill Sanctions Despicable Good Nature

Book:The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition

Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition

“He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.”

Action Common Objects Greatness Incapable Vulgar Gross Stale Vulgarity Allure

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.”

People Way Giving Action Given Social Process Simple Powerful Common Groups Share Birth Conversation Concern Significant Life Changing Social Change Initiate Process Of Change

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.”

“People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.”

People Action Political Views Common Cities Leader Class Empty Angry Tired Extremes Hungry Common Sense Borders Rhetoric Sanctuary Eliminating Framed

Author:Carly Fiorina

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.”

Country Action Views Common Relief Peril

Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.”

Years Done Action America Common Conflict Commitment Adversity Apathy Volunteer Persevere Things Done Common Ground

Author:William J. Clinton

“No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.”

Men Action Together Interest Common Opinion Effects Bounds Affection Concerts Common Interests

Author:Edmund Burke

“The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.”

Action Common Principles Employment Occupation Skepticism Scepticism Common Life

Book:Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects

“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.”

“The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.”

Men Mind Heart Art Seems Running Action Purpose Courses Individual Answers Common Divine Draws Mirrors Fellows Purpose Of Life Fellow Man Recess Deep Heart

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.”

Needs Humans Action Earth Values Belief Common Race Responsibility Members Environmental Obligation Human Race Deprived Stewardship Accord Be Confident

Author:Gilbert F. White

“The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.”

Ifs World Would Be Action Justice Common Citizens Definitions Guides Paradise Our Thoughts Global Citizen Peace And Justice Thoughts And Actions Definition Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

Action Pain Life Is Pleasure Animal Common Class Concerned Seeking Beast Avoiding Animal Life Avoiding Pain Bodily Functions Bodily Pain

Author:Saint Augustine

“Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.”

Mind May Doe Matter Body Action Law Science Understanding Common Teach Virtue Flow Logic Aim Lays Notion Determined Abstract Slender

Book:Works of Francis Bacon: 4

Source: Works of Francis Bacon: 4

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