Quotes About Action

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

This is the moment when what we need most is enough people with the skill, heart, and wisdom to help us pull ourselves back from the edge of breakdown and onto a different path.

As individuals, we must begin to pay attention to our attention (self-awareness); as teams, we must begin to converse about our conversations (dialogue); as enterprises, we must begin to organize our organizing (networks of networks: eco-systems); and as eco-systems, we must begin to coordinate our coordinating (systems of awareness-based collective action, or ABC).

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

La autotraición se produce cuando actuamos en contra de esos sentimientos que acabamos de describir, cuando hacemos a los demás lo contrario de lo que sentimos que debemos hacer o cuando no hacemos lo que sentimos que debemos hacer.

Direction is not of any use to a person who is not moving. God

I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

what am I to do here?

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

It is well known that Freudian psychoanalysis is limited to the task of making conscious the shadow-side and the evil within us. It simply brings into action the civil war that was latent, and lets it go at that.

The resemblance between the Prometheus of "Pandora" and the Prometheus of Spitteler ends here. He is merely a collective itch for action, so one-sided that it amounts to a repression of eroticism. His son Phileros ('lover of Eros') is simply erotic passion; for, as the son of his father, he must, as is often the case with children, re-enact under unconscious compulsion the unlived lives of his parents.

If you want to cure a neurosis you have to risk something. To do something without taking a risk is merely ineffectual . . .

I pulled a U-ey on Main." "Let me get this straight. You pulled an illegal

I wish you had.

there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun. Except maybe a chainsaw

there is no sound in nature that makes men move along faster than the pumping of a shotgun.

What humans can do to change the planet is puny.

and persuasive when what he really wanted to do was get going. He said,