Sentence examples for the act of doing something from inspiring English sources

I agree with you, Kathleen, it's the act of doing something or having a big life or experiencing something.

"Wilbur's gift accomplishes the virtue we have been trying to instill in our students -- the act of doing something for others," Mr. Vincent said.

Tim FitzHigham evokes the spirit of a time when there was no finer ambition for an Englishman than to perish in the act of doing something incredibly stupid.

Several hold balls, jump ropes or other toys; the teenagers wear the slightly guilty look of an age group perpetually caught in the act of doing something wrong.

"But later it will probably be said that the mighty Campbell behaved like a schoolboy caught in the act of doing something he shouldn't and who couldn't think of anything else to say except 'it was everyone else'".

I FOUND that the act of doing something toward my other goals, of feeling forward momentum, took the pressure off of my job, fulfilling all my creative and emotional needs.

"They have to get back to the simple act of doing something," Hoffman said patiently.

And the very act of doing something will give others permission to get out of their fears and step into their power.

Performative utterance Austin contrasted between statements, traditionally considered as the only utterances with any philosophical importance, with performative utterances that would not be considered as being true or false, and rather than merely saying something are better considered as acts of doing something.

It is, in fact, insurance that can be accessed by an act of doing something that intentionally harms (or risks harm to) the organization.

She once said in an interview, "Acting for me is the last vestige of doing something that I would like to feel really naive about".