I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization. 669
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. 655
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could – with 100 percent certainty – know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. 666
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. 1.7K
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. 672
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. 736
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. 657
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. 668
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within ‘black community’ by and large. 604
The world can’t have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can’t have a global solution without U.S. action. 712
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. 599
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. 671
