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man of action

Noun

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someone inclined to act first and think later

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. Giorgos Seferis

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows. Cesare Pavese

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. Georges Clemenceau

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Galsworthy

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. Jawaharlal Nehru

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action. Henri Bergson

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