Quotes About Action

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.

I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.

Ky është problemi me pijen, mendova, derisa po i mbushja vetes një gotë. Nëse ndodh diçka e keqe ju pini në përpjekje për ta harruar, në qoftë se ndodh diçka e mirë ju pini me qëllim për ta festuar, dhe në qoftë se nuk ndodh asgjë pini për të bërë diçka të ndodhë.

it's almost entirely waste. regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog.

I looked around for a fly to kill

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do. 2

Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't to it.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

yes, the real miracles are the thousands of tiny people who know exactly what they are doing. I used to look for inspiration in higher places but the higher you go like to Plato or God the less space there is in which to stand.

once again I hear of somebody who is going to settle down and do their work, painting or writing or whatever, as soon as they get a better light installed, orassoonastheymovetoanew city, or as soon as they come back from the trip they have been planning, or as soon as . . . it's simple: they just don't want to do it, or they can't do it, otherwise they'd feel a burning itch from hell they could not ignore and "soon" would turn quickly into "now.

I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did, unless I caused it.

Maybe I should have slammed her? How did a man know what to do? Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.

No estoy metido en ninguna competición con nadie, ni pienso en la inmortalidad; me importa un carajo todo eso. Es la ACCIÓN mientras estás vivo.

La gloria está en el movimiento y en la osadía. Al carajo con la muerte. Es hoy y es hoy y es hoy. Sí.