#Act

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."

"There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'"

"Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."

"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."

"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is."

"A chance meeting in a Kansas City coffee shop may take me months of planning and twice a day visits for over a year. But I already have my stunned, surprised, and shocked speech rehearsed for the moment I act like I had no idea she would be there."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."

"Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it."

"We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams."

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."

"One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable."

"Quit making shade while I’m trying to make noon. Go put on a blindfold and act like midnight. There’s leftover love in the freezer if you get cold."

"Nothing is born into this world without labor."