Quotes About Action

Whatever we see, or feel, or do, whatever action there is anywhere in the universe, while being the effect of past work on the one hand, becomes, on the other, a cause in its turn, and produces its own effect.

By all means make a start — even if it's for the wrong reason.

He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

Take risks in life, if u win u can lead, if u loose u can guide

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.

Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind.

have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else.

the idea of supernatural being may rouse to a certain extent the power of action in man, But it also brings spiritual decay. It brings dependence; it brings fear; it brings superstition . It degenerates into a horrible belief in the natural weakness of man.there is no supernatural, says the Yogi, but there are in nature gross manifestations and subtle manifestations.

Be and Make. Be Bold.

You have to plant doubt […] It's like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That's what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.

A Plot Point is defined as any incident, episode, or event that hooks into the action and spins it around in another direction—

When you can articulate your subject in a few sentences, in terms of action and character, you're ready to begin expanding the elements of structure and story. It may take several pages of free-association writing about your story before you can begin to grasp the essentials and reduce a complex story line to a simple sentence or two. Don't worry about it. Just keep doing it, and you will be able to articulate your story idea clearly and concisely.

Art, he proclaimed, is the process of actually sitting down and doing it. Not talking about doing it, not thinking or fantasizing about doing it, just doing it. Only after the work has been completed and exposed to public view will it be considered a work of "art" or not. If you think you're "an artist" just waiting for that one moment of inspiration to sit down and write, you'll be waiting forever.

Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living.