Act Quotes

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

I just like to act.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.