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Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The act that anything evil puts forth is due to the strength of goodness, but a deficient goodness. For if there were nothing of good there, neither would there be any being, nor any action: again, if the goodness were not deficient, neither would there be any evil.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Agere sequitur esse.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Every agent makes its like
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Here is no choice but either do or die.
- William Wallace
The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it.
- Clayton M. Christensen
But in disruptive situations, action must be taken before careful plans are made. Because much less can be known about what markets need or how large they can become, plans must serve a very different purpose: They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
- Viktor E. Frankl
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
- Viktor E. Frankl
fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes
- Viktor E. Frankl