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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Performance releases pressure.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

And now Lord what wait I for?

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Now go take on the day!

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.