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Ernest Hemingway

Quote of Ernest Hemingway - Never confuse movement with action....


Biography - Ernest Hemingway:

American novelist and writer.
Born: 1899 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

Never confuse movement with action.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Verwechsle niemals Bewegung mit Handeln.

French
Ne jamais confondre mouvement et action.




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Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.











Quotes

Quotes for: movement


Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?





Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.





Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.





Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.





Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.





Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.











Quotes

Ernest Hemingway also said...


The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.





I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.





Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.





They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.





All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.





Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.












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