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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. — Midge Decter

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve. — Mas Oyama

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man. — Jacob Bronowski

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring. — Thomas Merton

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it. — Melanie Benjamin

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation. — Robert McNamara

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. — Hunter S. Thompson

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret. — Robert Sheckley

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. — Harvey Pekar

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait. — Ken Goldberg

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action. — Pope Gregory I

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity. — Honore De Balzac

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley

Contemplation + action = breakthrough — Lada Ray

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. — Robert A. Heinlein

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
Think about it ... playing Russian roulette with an automatic! — Fredro Starr

Lysandra Barbas, please meet Princess Cleiona Bellos. — Morgan Rhodes

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action. — James Burgh

How elating it must be, to be able to take a precept and with wisdom throw it in the observer's face, disillusioned, — Dew Platt

They stood there eclipsed by concrete columns, paradoxically trapped — Anonymous

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Action and contemplation are ... — Bernard Of Clairvaux

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. — Meister Eckhart

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity. — Carlo Carretto

A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action — M. Scott Peck

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. — Owen Feltham

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. — James Harrington

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action. — George Gillespie