#action

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#anyway #fear #here #overcome #realize

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#comes #faction #human #impulse #intrinsic

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#great #iraq #iraqis #know #making

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ↗

— Arthur Miller

#action #any #begins #choice #choose

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ↗

— Henry Miller

#again #any #back #enduring #fact

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. ↗

— Henry Miller

#acts #difference #hero #immense #involved

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ↗

— Henry Miller

#difference #doctrine #evil #example #forces

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. ↗

— James Nathan Miller

#character #gaze #his #managed #mastery

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#actor #always #being #celebrity #get