Quotes About Action

It's something I've always wanted to do but never did. With work and everything it's hard to find the time to do things for yourself. So I just thought one day, fuck it, do it. And I did. Or at least I'm trying.

We're being paid to create value. This means getting up out of our reading chairs and getting things done. To be successful, raw ability will get you only so far. The final stretch is populated by closers—people who finish things.

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

Sookie, what have we done? And to whom? I killed a chicken. And I cooked it. Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false. -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse

Direct action, straightforward statements; obviously, those were the keys to improving my life.

The good you do does not spring from me, but only from you.

Don't worry about not feeling guilty. Something will happen soon for which you will feel guilty. Keep the feeling for then.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

My mom - when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!

I'd describe 'Psych' as 'Real Genius' meets 'Django Unchained.'

Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.

To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That's the mentality. Even if you're scared, just do it.

There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.