Modeling a behavior is 100x stronger than telling someone to act differently. Kids imitate the habits of their parents. Teammates match the competitive energy of one another. Employees learn to manage like their supervisor. Be...

We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. Inspiration is perishable – act on it immediately. Be impatient with actions but patient with results.

Act as though a pandemic influenza will start tomorrow. Don’t think we can wait around and not worry it won’t start for six months or one year. Once, it starts it is too late to...

Failure to act now… will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths.

We can pull down a nation if we can make them believe that education is not important. If they believe that it is important and begin to act on their belief, then there is nothing...

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

You don’t need to wish harder, you need to work harder.

Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is...

I’ve worked with some actors who can’t act.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

You can never have a successful end if you expect things to change as a result of miracles. Things will never change unless you take up the challenge to change them yourself.

Act, not for the results, but for the action.Lead, not for the mission, but for the vision. See, not through your beliefs, but through the eyes.Trust, not because of your beliefs, but because of truth....

Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have not even attempted doing! How do you know that it’s difficult if you have not even attempted doing it? Go,...

Dolly,” because not only is the Everyman a sheep, but he’s also a clone. They all think alike and act alike.

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

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don’t know about the other part of it. I’m not sure I had the chutzpah to go and...

People see me as someone who doesn’t take any crap from anyone – which I don’t – but it’s my shtick, and I obviously don’t act like that all the time.

I don’t control it at all. It’s all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like...

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I...

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part of the very fabric of our human life. We do enact things. We...

I don’t act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don’t transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

I don’t know… I think I’m quite extreme… When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character… otherwise I can’t act… In my private life it’s the same… I think.

Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations.

The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the life you wish to live and live it fully!

Begin when you have the strength. You have it now; therefore the best time to begin is now.

If we’re going to be smart, we can’t be stupid…!

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe...

After the comedy boom of the ’80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had...

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.

There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a...

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

I’m aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

Only the legs that run are those that really have muscles!

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

After years of immaturity, I finally have my act together. As far as acting, it’s very slapstick.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I’m a 7 o’clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

I’m not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.