Quotes About Action

Think globally and act locally.

JACK HEARD A HEAVY SPLASH and he turned around in his seat again.

But wanting to change, and actually making it happen were two different things.

How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.

Dante assigned the hottest circle of hell to those who do nothing in the face of evil. Life shouldn't be about pursuing pleasure or being safe, being comfortable. It's about helping others, and reaching for what's right, and trying to make this a better world.

Czasem musimy zada? cios pierwsi, zanim inni go nam zadadz?.

Takie jest ?ycie, ma petite. Czasem musimy zada? cios pierwsi, zanim inni nam go zadadz?

Sí, se puede!

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Start small and start immediately.

Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said

Leisure Lesson #3: Seek activities that require real-world,

Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.

By accepting an assistant position he threw himself into the center of the action, where he could find out how things actually work.

waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan.

1: Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption.

Discipline #2: Act on the Lead Measures

I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in the abstract before you do them. That's your tragic mistake.

something more fundamental to human flourishing: the sense of meaning that comes from acting with intention.

It's safer to comment on our culture than to step into the Rooseveltian ring and attempt to wrestle it into something better.

As the MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya expands in his modern interpretation of the Ethics, if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life?

Missions are hard. By this point in my quest, however, I had become comfortable with "hard," and I hope that if you've made it this far in the book, you have gained this comfort as well. Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

most men consider their rationally selected actions are in fact idiosyncratic responses that have grown strong enough, through repeated use, to overpower other urges and reactions—that have won, in other words, the mental battle for survival.