I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
You have to be quite stupid to act.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.