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“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

Writing Mean Character Action Turns Reading Imagination Lines Deals Fiction Paradox Fiction Writing

Author:Amy Waldman

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.”

Humans Action Desire Turns Consciousness Habit Burning Vigorous Human Actions Implants Burning Desire Desire For Success

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do is help people to turn away from sin. To ignore another person's wrongful actions is a sign of apathy or indifference, while fraternal correction is motivated by love for that person's well-being, as can be seen by the fact that our Lord Jesus himself urged such correction. Indeed, the call to repentance is at the heart of the Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed, "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Good News" (Mark 1:15).”

“O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.”

Mind Humans Action Turns Language Powerful Divine Contemplation Discourse Penetrate Admirable

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.”

Mind Action Turns Events Perfection Beloved

Author:Stendhal

“Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.”

Hard Dream Action Turns Energy Waiting Goal Effort Responsibility Leader Plans Willing Hard Work Tomorrow Taking Responsibility Executing Perspiration

Author:Denis Waitley

“A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.”

Philosophy Action Turns Results Attitude Lifestyle Positive Attitude Positive Life Positive Results

Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”

Action Dies Turns Individual Consciousness Environment Behavior Tunes Routine Artificial Trapped Robots Adaptation Sequence Turn-on Harmonious Hooked Reborn Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.”

Persons Action Turns Found Religious Wise Expression Conscious Hollywood Studios Rhythm Tunes Ecstasy Quarrels Turn-on Props Wise Person

Author:Timothy Leary

“Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.”

Matter Hands Action Turns Chance Brain Mankind Conjuring

Book:The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more

Source: The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more

“Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.”

Dream Reality Action Turns Results Achievement Your Dreams Dream Reality

Author:Tony Robbins

“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“True love turns words and feelings into actions.”

Love Feelings Action Turns

Book:It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set

Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set

“We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.”

People Government Action Turns Effort Iraq Crowds Lists Excellent Occupation Sparks Speakers New Orleans

Author:Ed Garvey

“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

“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”

World Way Action Turns This World Astonishing

Book:Endless night

Source: Endless night

“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

“I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.”

People Feels I Can Action Faces Turns Girl Fronts Scene Red Brave Shy

Author:Jet Li

“Prayer that works is prayer that makes a difference, contemplation that turns into action, on behalf of peace and justice in a troubled and unjust world system. Prayer is energy, the energy of love and transformative power. It is given to us to use for the good of all creation. In prayer God gives us the fuel of life, and asks us to live it.”

World Giving Use Action Turns Asks Energy Given Differences Justice Prayer Christianity Creation Contemplation Fuel Making A Difference Unjust Behalf Peace And Justice

Author:Margaret Silf

“Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]”

Action Turns Praise Thyself

Author:George Herbert

“There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion.”

World Action Law Political Order Turns Answers Opinion Clear Conscience Court Prepared Public Opinion Administrative Clear Conscience

Author:Djemal Pasha

“As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.”

Book Eye Action Turns Evil Lines Half Enemy Adventure Kings Good And Evil Plot Twists Popping Good Actions Plot Twists

Author:Rick Riordan

“I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.”

Action Used Turns Information Example Insight Active Data Innate

Author:Michael Dell

“Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action”

People Art Action Suffering Turns Awareness Mines

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.”

Action Law Turns Opposites Stations Makers Representatives Ballots Wallets Power Corrupts Polling Law Breakers

Author:Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj