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Act the part and you will become the part.
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Act The Part And You Will Become

William James
Act the part and you will become the part.
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The conviction: i will not tolerate this age. the freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. and i will act. no one else has both the conviction and the freedom. many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. crazy acts by crazy people. but what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? then you have the beginning of a new age. we shall start a new order of things.
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Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the playwright chooses the manner of it: if he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. for your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. the choice of the cast is another's.
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When i was young, i had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. and i leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. but each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are.
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Yes, the highest things are beyond words. that is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. when literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.
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I become the stars and the moon. i become the lover and the beloved. i become the victor and the vanquished. i become the master and the slave. i become the singer and the song. i become the knower and the known. i keep on dancing then, it is the eternal dance or creation. the creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. i keep on dancing and dancing...and dancing. until there is only...the dance.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. if you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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