Quotes About Action

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

An idea leads to a thought. The repeated thought leads to a feeling and the feeling leads to a new decision and the decision leads to a new behavior and the new behavior leads to a new action thus new results. See

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Every habit has a trigger. This is a thought, cue or action that makes you want to do the bad habit. Your job is to identify any trigger that pops up. Use your journal to track triggers by writing them as they occur. Include the following important information: Where are you?  Who is with you?  What are you doing? What thoughts are in your head?

Dream and the way will be clear . . . Pray and the angels will hear . . . Leap and the net will appear.

their minds and their actions to some specific idea, tradition, or "mark" that comes from the beast. They will be marked in their minds. Yet, God's true people will detect this deception because His name is written in their foreheads.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Does it really matter what you feel when you do something? Does it somehow make a difference if you're sorry when you go blasting your way over someone's life like a locomotive over a papier-mâché doll

It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.

When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it;

If we do not know what we are doing, then it follows no one else does either; and, if no one knows what we are going to do, well then, why is someone so determined to stop us from doing it?

I'd forgotten to close the shutters again, and so woke with the Furnace burning painfully into my eyes. I cursed for a little while, then got up and closed them, because it is better to close the shutters than curse the light, or however that goes. I tried to sleep some more but it didn't take.

The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel. Specifically, the new emphasis is on learning to step back from what you are thinking, notice it, and open up to what you are experiencing. These steps keep us from doing the damage to ourselves that efforts to avoid or control our thoughts or feelings inflict, allowing us to focus our energies on taking the positive actions that can alleviate our suffering.

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Don't listen to what people say; watch what they do.

Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it.

You're loitering, citizen." "Actually, I was hesitating.

The slower your path, the muddier your boots?' 'Even so,' Icarium said, nodding. 'Time is nothing like that.' 'Are you so certain? When we must wait, our minds fill with sludge, random thoughts like so much refuse. When we are driven to action, our current is swift, the water seemingly clear, cold and sharp.

If holy words could not offer up an answer to despair, then what good were they? If the truths so revealed did not invite restitution, then their utterance was no more than a curse. And if the restitution is found not in the mortal realm, then we are invited to inaction, and indifference. Will you promise to a soul a reward buried in supposition? Are we to reach throughout our lives but never touch? Are we to dream and to hope, but never know?

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

Hope does not fall from the sky. We create hope ourselves.

I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.