Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Neil Young

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas Hobbes

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
Kevin Bacon

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar Gracian

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
Bell Hooks

The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
Al Sharpton

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Robert Peel