Quotes About Action

Desire without a plan is only a dream

knowledge is power, and power not properly utilised is a wasted resource

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

RADA: Read, Assess, Decide, Act. This stands for: read the situation; assess possible outcomes; decide on options; act on your decision.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking.

A strategy of watch and wait is usually the wisest first step, but people frequently apply another management plan: engage and enrage.

Worry is a way to avoid change; when we worry, we don't do anything about the matter.

I have seen these pieces so often that I may recognize them sooner than some people, but my main job is just to get them on the table.

if you never make a decision, you can't make a mistake). It

Worry is a way to avoid admitting powerlessness over something, since worry feels like we're doing something. (Prayer also makes us feel like we're doing something, and even the most committed agnostic will admit that prayer is more productive than worry.)

We rely upon the woman herself to plan a course of action. Anyone, in or out of the system, who tells a woman she must follow a particular course that goes against her own judgment and intuition is not only failing to use the philosophy of empowerment, but may well be endangering the woman.

Worry is a way to avoid admitting powerlessness over something, since worry feels like we're doing something.

The truth is that every thought is preceded by a perception, every impulse is preceded by a thought, every action is preceded by an impulse, and man is not so private a being that his behavior is unseen, his patterns undetectable.

Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it

When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

While the earth spins, make yourself useful.

You can't satisfy all the desires of those who ask, but you can translate some of the care you have inside of yourselves to action on the outside," he told everyone one last time. "And that's what really matters.

The good news is that the fear and uncertainty last only as long as it takes us to hear the underlying positive message and begin to act on it.

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.