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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. -- Lawrence Welk
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. -- David Joseph Schwartz
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives. -- Ntozake Shange
So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. -- Tim Tebow
We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them. -- Elizabeth George
What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down. -- Rachel Aaron
But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried. -- Michelle Moran
I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick. -- Ewan McGregor
Maybe the question isn't whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like God doesn't exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn't. But if we act like God does exist, then in essence, She does. -- Chris Hollenback
You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ's character and His call for us to be His disciples. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act -- Paulo Coelho
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. -- Bryan White
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? -- Victoria Jackson
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? -- Joan Baez
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. -- Pearl Cleage
We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change. -- Arne Duncan
Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals. -- Dave Hickey
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! -- Blaise Pascal
I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act. -- Joyce Meyer
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble. -- Sharon Salzberg
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. -- Harlan Coben
The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients. -- Bernie Siegel
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked. -- Rand Paul
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. -- Tony Robbins
Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church. -- David A. Bednar
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. -- Mark Hyman
I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming. -- Craig T. Nelson
How much damage will have been done before we act? -- John McCain
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. -- Morgan Freeman
How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act. -- Eileen Claussen
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace? -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war? -- Peter Watts
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act -- Gil Fronsdal
Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry. -- James Thurber
What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us. -- William Glasser
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations. -- David Frawley
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function. -- Moshe Feldenkrais
It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now. -- Greg Nickels
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. -- Florence Nightingale
When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. -- Linda Seger
Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set Teachers Lounge up. -- Ted Alexandro

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