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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. Margaret J. Wheatley
Wise Simple Listening Practice Sit Else Willing Simple Act Takes Advise Sound Listen Just Anything Anything Else Us Coach Act Requires Present
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. Monica Johnson
God Disappointment Regret Cause Hatred Feeling Before Repentance Admission Merely Sin Wishes Remorse Sorrow Without However Were Situated Proactive Difference Different Turning Act Even Away Things
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell
Accident Thinking Out Must Be Prepared Emergency Previous Never He Taken Himself Practicing How Surprise Motto Scout Any Meaning Meaning Of Act Prepare Prepared
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. Theodore Roosevelt
Great Big Nation Action Must Great Nation Only Merely Talk Trusted Substitute Rhetoric Poor Really Act
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln
History Past Think Difficulty Our High Must Anew Case Rise New Occasion Piled Quiet Stormy Inadequate Act Present
Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts. Jenn Proske
Love Great Rich Being Rich Able Never Parts Been Goal Being Famous Want Really Act
Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius
Life Every Were Act Your Last
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life Age Old Old Age Our Crown Act Play Last
Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you. Bradley Whitford
You Will Whatever More Write Writer Make Sure Than Sustain Want Act Actor
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David Joseph Schwartz
Leadership Mind Reflect Think Thinking Mirrors Through Attitudes How Act Shows
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families. Ellen G. White
Me You Satan Evil Control Young Birth Fathers Minds Possession Though Tell Corrupted Seed Born Seems Take He Mistrust Mothers Very Families Sowing Children Them Act Lethargy Why
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. James G. Frazer
Other Distance Once Severed Has-Been Physical Magic Contact Principle Continue Been After Which Act Each Things Second
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness. Simon Sinek
Great Confidence Tough Humility Great Leaders Toughness Leaders Underscore Act Serve Need
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton
Loneliness You Vision Obscurity Beyond Without Motion Limits Discover Labor Begin Repose Infinity Act Fulfillment Activities Whose Deepest Extend Profound Here Desire
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion Obedience Better Hundred One Act Than Act Sermons
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. H. L. Mencken
Man Honor Latter Moral He Between Caught Been Difference Regrets Worked Act Even
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. Cesar Chavez
Life Justice Struggle Courage Giving Sacrifice Others Our Our Lives Ourselves Find Totally Strongest Only Non-Violent Am Truest Manliness Convinced Act Belief Lives Deepest
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. Glenn Greenwald
Class Law Fear Behavior Will Free Power Own Rule Rule Of Law Those Responses Degrade Plunder Cheat Operate Without Limits Imposed Endlessly Whether Fortify Act Elite Harmed
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife. Tim Gunn
Life People Care Strife Collaboration Solo About Support Around Huge Times Us Act Who Assemble Need
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Tom Wolfe
Beautiful Woman Cooking Dinner Beautiful Woman Earth Someone More She Than Loves Act Appealing Spectacle
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. Abraham Lincoln
People Money Settle Harmoniously Appropriate Generally Concert Got Quarrel Themselves Act Capitalists Now
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. Barry Goldwater
Government Single Other Criminals More Single Act Than Any Tax Created Act Income Income Tax
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will. Francis of Assisi
God Great Me You Darkness Light Mind Will Glorious Thou All Things Abroad Only Thy Shed Lord Lord Jesus Pray Accordance May Holy Act Your Found Things Jesus
Act, and God will act. Joan of Arc
God Will Act
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds. Jon Katz
Love Good Revenge Value Petty Our Minds Evidence Ways Complex Value Systems Moods Systems Kind Bad Neither Seek Fact Emotional Read Dogs Nor In Fact Hold Them Much Act Reason Why Lives Grudges
What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Lewis B. Smedes
Loyalty You Partner Others Some Fact He Bound Invisible Friend Person Fibers In Fact Disloyal Us Act Stranger Special Each Belongs Treats
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