Quotes About Action

So much of our world has been brutally wrested from us; we now have to say enough. No more. Perhaps if enough individuals find out what is actually going on for themselves and start doing something about it, then maybe we can stave off the fast-advancing crisis and create a beautiful. healthy, livable planet where all life flourishes and man is free to rise to greater heights.

But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.

The Earth Organization will also create a definitive guide of what can be done in our personal lives to make a difference.

It is as well to avoid illusions of control, but in the end all we can do is act as if we can influence events. To do otherwise is to succumb to fatalism.

La acción de impedir los beneficios del otro mediante una creíble capacidad para detener la agresión en sus fases iniciales se conoció como «disuasión por negación»,[5] mientras que el aumento de los costes se denominó «disuasión por castigo». La negación era esencialmente otra palabra para denominar «defensa efectiva», la cual, si se comunicaba con suficiente antelación podía proporcionar un argumento convincente contra la agresión

Gray tenía una visión exaltada del estratega como alguien que podía ver el sistema como un todo, captando las múltiples interdependencias y los numerosos factores en juego con el fin de averiguar y señalar dónde se podría aplicar la acción del modo más provechoso.

las acciones inmediatas a la luz de consecuencias que podía anticipar».

el bucle OODA». OODA siginifica: observación, orientación, decisión y acción.

Friction thus caused delay and confusion. Action in war became like walking in water, and vision was regularly obscured. "All actions take place in something virtually akin to dusk, which in addition, like fog or moonlight, gives objects an exaggerated size and a grotesque view.

La estrategia decide dónde actuar; la logística traslada las tropas hasta ese punto; la táctica general dedide el modo de ejecutar la acción y el uso de las tropas».[7]

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

If anything occurs that causes your price to go down, it's a self-inflicted wound.

Why, if we feel anguish at the death of over 300 law enforcement officers in the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, do we seek actions in police officers that are less decisive and vigorous in dealing with locally threatening circumstances-thereby placing both the officer and the subject of the police response at much greater risk?

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.