Quotes About Action

In times of deep division, great change, and never-ending brokenness, we need brave people of practice to help us keep moving forward.

New life, hope, and change aren't going to magically drop on our doorstep because we wish for it, long for it, pray for it, share memes on Facebook about it.

Faith is not knowledge. It's not static. It's not a "thing" we can grasp. Rather, it's an act, occurrence, mode of being. It's a mix of actions that reflect God in us and through us. It's a myriad of -ing words that are active, tangible, and always in motion. Faith is a verb. It's meant to be practiced.

Instead, he slammed the throttle, gunning Sewee in a tight arc toward the strange glow. Chance's arms pinwheeled as the boat accelerated beneath him. He toppled backward onto Shelton, who heroically tried to break his fall. "Ugh!" Shelton lay on his back, pancaked by the much larger boy.

legs frantic, adrenaline firing through every fiber of my being.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." "Will Rogers," I

Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben's reflexes had saved him. "Please stop doing that!" Ben barked. "Please keep doing that!" Hi warbled.

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.

Imogen stood on her right foot and pulled the left boot off. She was

Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was

Salen, K. 2007b. "Gaming Literacies: A Game Design Study in Action." Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 16, no. 3:301-322. Salvia, J., and J.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is ready cash–use it.

To do it all we must do it too soon: shoot before the moon to shoot the moon, we learn, having shot it dead, bagged now and heavy as a head.

We are the visible and invisible effect of limitless karma — individual and collective social actions.

He quickly brought the gun up, even as she brought the wire down like a tribal Indian spearing a fish.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

If a person is riding at all he is already doing more right than wrong. The job is to add to those correct actions and drop the incorrect. Do you do this? You

How to Create Your Action Plan First, take your goal and make it into a SMART goal. What is a SMART goal? SMART is an acronym that stands for 'Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-tagged.' It helps you create clear, attainable, realistic, and achievable goals.

Vision is profound insight; Meditation is accomplished through experiential understanding of the nature of mind; and the Action that meditation induces is uninhibited outer, inner and mystic action. 12

Coaching involves listening to others, asking questions to deepen thinking, allowing others to find their own solutions, and doing it all in a way that makes people feel empowered and responsible enough to take action.

Learning is best achieved through relationships—having the right conversations with the right people in the right context—and collaborative action.

there are two types of people in this world: those who make excuses and those who get the job done. No excuses. You are 100 percent responsible for anything that has your name on it.

Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe