Quotes About Action

Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)

Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should be abandoned. Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Paging is not necessarily indicative of a problem; it is the action of the page scanner to try and increase the size of the free list by moving inactive pages to disk.

Il mondo può progredire e in effetti progredisce per effetto di azioni umane positive, per effetto dell'impegno, per effetto della non-indifferenza. Il principio vale per le azioni globali e per le azioni locali e noi dobbiamo tenerne conto.

Il mondo può progredire e in effetti progredisce per effetto di azioni umane positive, per effetto dell'impegno, per effetto della non-indifferenza. Il principio vale per le azioni globali e per le azioni locali e noi dobbiamo tenerne conto. [...] Io sono convinto che la storia si muova verso il progresso e che rispetto a questo progresso l'azione consapevole degli individui e delle collettività sia fondamentale, e dunque doverosa.

Le parole sono anche atti, dei quali è necessario fronteggiare le conseguenze.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

suddenly he lowered his trunk

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.

Of course, to execute an operation intelligently is not exactly the same thing as to follow its execution intelligently. The agent is originating, the spectator is only contemplating.

Intelligent' cannot be defined in terms of 'intellectual' or 'knowing how' in terms of 'knowing that'; 'thinking what I am doing' does not connote 'both thinking what to do and doing it'. When I do something intelligently, i.e. thinking what I am doing, I am doing one thing and not two. My performance has a special procedure or manner, not special antecedents.

When I do something intelligently, i.e. thinking what I am doing, I am doing one thing and not two. My performance has a special procedure or manner, not special antecedents.

To do something thinking what one is doing is, according to this legend, always to do two things; namely, to consider certain appropriate propositions, or prescriptions, and to put into practice what these propositions or prescriptions enjoin.

An accused person may admit or deny that he did something, or that he did it on purpose, but he never admits or denies having willed.

Nor could it be maintained that the agent himself can know that any overt action of his own is the effect of a given volition.

According to the legend, whenever an agent does anything intelligently, his act is preceded and steered by another internal act of considering a regulative proposition appropriate to his practical problem. But what makes him consider the one maxim which is appropriate rather than any of the thousands which are not?

He applies in his practice what Aristotle abstracted in his theory of such practices.