Quotes About Action

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. FRIEDRICH ENGELS

atrapados entre el sueño de la acción y el miedo al fracaso, es donde nacen los artistas sombra.

It is very difficult to complain about a situation morning after morning, month after month, without being moved to constructive action.

Anger is not the action itself. It is action's invitation.

Tírate y aparecerá la red».

Primeiro, escolha o que gostaria de fazer. O como geralmente irá se alinhar.

What do I need to know?" "What do I need to try?" "What do I need to accept?" "What do I need to do?

Remember the maxim "Leap, and the net will appear.

Creativity requires action, and part of that action must be physical.

Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? ... Answered prayers deliver us back to our own hand. This is not comfortable

He thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it.

It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it.

Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the same way.

between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.

Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Did I think Adrian's action an implied

he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

Pase lo que pase –escribió Flaubert cuando estalló la guerra franco-prusiana–, seguiremos siendo unos estúpidos.» ¿Simple pesimismo jactancioso? ¿O se trata de la necesaria aceleración de las expectativas, cuando aún no se puede pensar, actuar o escribir adecuadamente?

De haber vivido, ¿habría disfrutado de la vida, como la mayoría hacemos o intentamos hacer? Quizá; o tal vez habría albergado culpa y remordimiento por no haber sabido acoplar sus actos con sus argumentos.

de todo ello: «Más vale malograr la ancianidad que no saber qué hacer con ella.»

But the very action of naming something that subsequently happens—of wishing specific evil, and that evil coming to pass—this still has a shiver of the otherworldly about it.

I tried to explain about refusing an unsought gift, about action versus passivity.

Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate.

I was anxious to take some action that I could control; to establish something that was mine alone.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.