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“Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.”

Action Force Social Realizing Behavior Social Behavior

Book:The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments

Source: The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments

“You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.”

Way Action Force Hurt Too Much Bigger Smallness

Author:Tama J. Kieves

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.”

Action Universe Energy Force Behinds Events Type Deeds Reactions Invites Isolated

Book:The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

“We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.”

Feels Happens Action Force Destiny Fate Masters Occasions Our Actions Exhilaration Rare Occasion

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action”

Action Force Essentials Offensive Parting Congo Halt

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

Real Action Individual Force Effort Acting Exercise Spring Energetic Spurs Real Freedom

Author:Anna Brackett

“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”

Action Science Force Understanding Natural Perfect Moral Technology Achieve Science And Technology

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

Thinking Life Mind Doe Character Body Action Three Force Behinds Attitude Greatness Personality Driving Mood Instance Pilots Driving Force

Author:Walt Disney

“A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.”

Should Government Action Force Constitution Violation Framed

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.”

Men Action Force Wind Demand Concepts Horse Moved Distance Affair Speed Aviation Sail Adaptability Premium Quickness Concept Of Time Time And Distance

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“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

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

Way Mean Two Important Action Three Force Influence Subjects Objects Patient Rate Contrary Agents Pairs Cooperation Relative Brutes Brute Force

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.”

Mind Kind Persons Action Force Consequence Persuasion

Book:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

“Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.”

Trying Action Spiritual Form Force Accepting Movement Ideals Intellect Characteristics Labour Horizon Creeds Inward New Horizons

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.”

Ifs Made Soul Action Young Energy Force Ocean India Calm Streams Rushing Old Time

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.”

Moments Action Strong Force Security Weak Surprise Devoted Providing Troops Reserves Distribution Defence

Book:The Principles of War

Source: The Principles of War

“I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.”

Use Feelings Action Force Gains Painter

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.”

People Action Force Virtuous Alas Degenerates

Author:Vittorio Alfieri

“Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order for "rational" is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression.”

Men Reason Character Action Order Force Ignorance Destruction Rational Oppression Irrational Behalf Brutality Thoughts And Actions

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.”

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.”

Whole Action Force Quantity Unchangeable

Book:Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

Source: Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Action Order Turns Force Wish Responsibility Hell Path Praying Higher Shadow Crosses Destruction Ultimate Know Yourself I Pray Radiant Descent Higher Self Rebuilding

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action.”

Action Force Imagination Creative Poet Approach Primaries

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us”

Action Moving Force Ability Leader Shapes Invisible Consistently

Author:Tony Robbins

“Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.”

“If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Feels Should Trying Mean Hands Action Law Fighting Force Watches Streets Protect Court Intention Refuse Pockets Threatened

Book:Three Men on the Bummel

Source: Three Men on the Bummel

“Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!”

Thinking Action Force Enemy Worst Projects Tasks Election Managers Fragile Procrastination Momentum Implications Deadline Project Management Worst Enemy Election Day

Book:The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every

Source: The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every

“Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.”

Men Doe Done Action Force Modest Admirer Savants

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.”

World Has Beens Eye Action Law Force Mystery Modern Equal Window Thirds Reactions Pregnant Newton Generalization Action And Reaction Laws Of Motion

Author:Phillips Brooks

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.”

Men World Believe Ideas Action Faith Strong Force Clear Doubt He Man Masters Weak Conviction Possessed Uncertain Unseen Wavering

Book:Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

Source: Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

“The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.”

“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.”

Action Law Force Effort Duty Elements Absorbing

Author:Roman Dmowski

“When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.”

Use Body Action Political Names Force Party Class Movement Ought Tools Patient Operations Progressive Preaching Homeland Political Power Reactionaries Tumors Progressive Movement

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Needs Believe Sometimes Use Action Order Force Nations Nice Military Resources Folks Command Controversy Military Force

Author:Dick Cheney

“Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.”

Action Lying Force Issues Rocks Products Depth Primitive Petroleum Distillation

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.”

Action Force Please Strategy Perceive Delicate

Author:Jim Starlin

“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Ifs Giving Two Action Force Loses Ability Enemy Conditions Fronts Demand Draws South Defeat Commit Contribution Being The Best Zone Division Offensive Units Tanks

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest and humble; but their persons were sacred and inviolable. Their force was suited rather for opposition than for action. They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.”

May Action Force Consideration

Author:Susan Rice

“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”

Body Action Desire Force Planets Tyranny Aspiration Submit Petty

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.”

“Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.”

Ifs Feels Country Action Winning Force President Insight Combination Admiration Irresistible Zest Caliber

Book:Constitutional Government in the United States

Source: Constitutional Government in the United States

“An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.”

“The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a checkagainst irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.”

Thinking Looks Has Beens States Use Action Wanted Given Force President United United States Tools Constitution Responsible Congress Legislation Irresponsible Veto

Book:The Presidential campaign, 1976

Source: The Presidential campaign, 1976

“It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.”

Want Said Action Christian Law Political Force Religious Talking Liberty Moral Rights Willing Organization Institutions Unions Including League Abortion Arena Civil Liberties Abortion Rights

Author:Don Feder

“You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.”

Ifs Want Littles Action Film Force Comedy Taste Action Films

Author:Ashley Greene