Quotes About Action

Der Augenblick muß es ergeben." "Wenn aber kein solcher Augenblick kommt?" "So führe ich ihn herbei.

donde yo vacilaría usted se precipita como el toro sobre trapo el rojo.

De ce sa ma fi lasat tocmai acum prada deznadejdii, socotindu-ma iremediabil pierdut? Omul trebuie sa spere pana in ultimul ceas, actionand, fireste, cu toata energia de care e capabil pentru a-si implini propria speranta. Doar cine nu poseda aceasta forta se poate considera intr-adevar rapus.

Önemli olan, eylemlerimizin önceden kestirilemeyen sonuçlar? hakk?nda ne kadar az bilgiye sahip olabilece?imizin bilincinde olmam?zd?r.

The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently—like the effect of a fog or moonshine—gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

All feelings are permissible. Help him understand that it's what he DOES with these feelings that determines whether he experiences a negative (unhappy) or positive (happy) outcome. Teach him the Law of Cause and Effect.

But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.

oops!…i did it again saturday, april 2

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.

Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the world was unlocked by that very tool. To understand any aspect of the cosmos was to look on the face of God: not directly, but by a species of triangulation, because to think mathematically was to feel the action of God in oneself.

Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.

But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.

Sometimes I don't reflect on the consequences

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

Rather than be passively nudged into acting wisely, he believes, we can be learn to be risk-savvy with the rule of thumb and so choose to act wisely ourselves.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

Dear good white people (you know who you are), I have a secret to tell you: There is no such thing. There are only white people who work to do good, just things. You are an ally because of your actions, not because you say you are. You're an ally when you call out racist comments, when you listen and learn, when you work in solidarity with people of color to dismantle institutional racism, when your efforts and actions are felt by others. Not just when you wear a safety pin.

The rumble starts today. Right here, right now. Time to be gutsy as hell.