A Quote by John Sterling

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

John Sterling

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Action Back Element Emotion Itself Leading Leading On Madness Thought Turning

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John Sterling
American - Entertainer

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

Talcott Parsons

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Paulo Coelho

A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

Pico Iyer

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

William Wordsworth

I can understand how technologically advanced action has become in our movies, but unless there is emotion or a strong story, it doesn't work. With every action sequence, there must be an emotion to justify it.

Sajid Khan

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.

Ann Wigmore

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

T. S. Eliot

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

Herman Melville

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.