A Quote by Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Benjamin Cardozo

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Benjamin Cardozo
American - Judge
May 24, 1870 - July 9, 1938

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

Brian Tracy

I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious.

Richelle Mead

Inaction counted as a choice.

Dean Koontz

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Jacqueline Cochran

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

Jacqueline Cochran

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Rudolf Arnheim

Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

Rory Vaden

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Farley Mowat

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

Giorgio Armani

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

Will Self

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Archibald MacLeish

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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