Quotes About Action

A wise man knows his limitations." And a bold one seizes opportunities.

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

But to act, most of us must first overcome the fears that have blocked our creativity in the past.

creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

we've found is that we don't have to generate creativity from scratch. We just need to help people rediscover what they already have: the capacity to imagine—or build upon—new-to-the-world ideas. But the real value of creativity doesn't emerge until you are brave enough to act on those ideas. That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

What matters most in the end, though, is this: your belief in your capacity to create positive change and the courage to take action.

They live in the active voice.

Just as writer's block happens when writers stop writing, so, too, does innovation grind to a halt when prototypes stop being built. When the muse fails you, don't mope at your desk. Make something.

When you are called to lead, the last thing you want to do is vacillate, show fear, display weakness and indecisiveness, or fail to act.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy.

a sudden squawked command caused everyone within earshot to act for a split second as if they were shaking invisible martinis

A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?

I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.

CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton's law of motion, what becomes of free will?

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.

When Jesus calls us to bear fruit in this life, He is prompting us to demonstrate our faith by relying on Him and taking courses of action that defy the wisdom of the world.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.