Quotes About Action

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

What We Know Versus What We Do

She had probably been too intense, always trying to shake sense into whomever, then bewildered when, instead of revising their beliefs or being galvanized into action, they simply chose to be friends with someone else.

There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.

Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.

Holy shit!" Moondance swung around, her face now streaked with the ashy remains of the nephilim, her eyes wide at the sight of me. "Callie's back, and she brought a laser gun!

You see it is not enough to merely evade evil. One must seek it out and destroy it.

The more depressed people with the growth mindset felt, the more they took action to confront their problems, the more they made sure to keep up with their schoolwork, and the more they kept up with their lives. The worse they felt, the more determined they became!

What works is making a vivid, concrete plan: "Tomorrow during my break, I'll get a cup of tea, close the door to my office, and call the graduate school." Or, in another case: "On Wednesday morning, right after I get up and brush my teeth, I'll sit at my desk and start writing my report.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it." Pulling

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it.

It might be easier to mobilize for action if I felt better, but it doesn't matter. The plan is the plan.

That's belief that partners have the potential for change should not be confused with the belief that the partner will change. The partner has to want to change, commit to change, and take concrete actions toward change.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it. When it happens, the "I could have been" is heartbreaking, not comforting.

La creencia de que los miembros de la pareja tienen la posibilidad de cambiar no debe confundirse con la creencia de que cambiarán. Los miembros de la pareja tienen que querer cambiar, comprometerse con el cambio y emprender acciones concretas al respecto.

The investigators asked them how certain they were that their horses would win. The bettors who had placed their bets were far more certain about their choice than the folks waiting in line.19 Yet nothing had changed except the finality of placing the bet. People become more certain they are right about something they just did if they can't undo it.

was Aristotle who said it: "All human actions have one or more of seven causes," and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

bBecause he simply doesn't see his dreams in detail, the kind of details that drive a person to pack their shit, to move.

I point at your useless, flat, nonathletic sneakers. "May I?" I ask and you nod. I pull the laces tight and tie them in double knots

The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards.

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.