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“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

Firsts Bigs Happens Action Acting Steps Break Plans Prejudice Planning First Steps Bias Biased Small Steps

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.”

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“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.”

“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.”

“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.”

Men Mind Ideas Reality Action Life Is Attention Opinion Impossible Objects Ordinary Reflection Prejudice Ordinary Man Rapport Checkerboard

Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that the terminology ought to prejudice us one way or the other. So I think the more descriptive term is 'liberty rights' versus 'welfare rights'. So, liberty rights are freedom-of-action type rights, and welfare rights are rights-to-stuff, of various kinds...And, property rights are not rights-to-stuff. I think that's one of the key misunderstandings about property. Property rights are the rights to liberty within your jurisdiction.”

“If you have a problem at that level where there is hatred, prejudice, and anger, that has nothing to do with the other person. What is wrong with you that you are feeling that way? Look at yourself. Quite often it is their upbringing or their parent's problems. You got to get free. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.”

Feelings Problem Action Responsibility Hatred Prejudice Taking Responsibility Upbringing Look At Yourself

Author:KT Tunstall

“Good managers have a bias for action.”

Action Prejudice Management Managers Bias Biased Good Manager

Author:Tom Peters

“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

“When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.”

Way May Action Values Belief Wish White Support Failing Racism Prejudice Structure Embrace Oppression Racist Domination

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.”

“Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.”

Men Giving Reason Action Machines Prejudice Corruption Taking Action Cogs

Author:John Jay Chapman

“Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.”

World Action Party Moral Influence Prejudice Mathematics Bitter Remove Strife Null

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.”

Men Action Political Passion Literature Winning Prejudice Consistent Outlook

Book:A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

Source: A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”

Knows Action Law Racism Prejudice Womens Rights Legislation Our Actions Abolish Guidelines

Author:Belva Ann Lockwood

“I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.”

Action Opportunity Race Talent Prejudice Deny Artistic Artistic Talent

Author:Bess Truman

“If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.”

Ifs Love Life Action Meditation Pride Pure Prejudice Absolutes Evolve Love Life Within You

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out...even more popular than before because bust their heads was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.”

May Action America Young Black Party Land Mass Prejudice Democratic Clubs Mood Mainstream Attacking Democratic Party

Author:Mike Royko