Quotes About Action

We'd all be happier and more successful if we could learn to be chefs more often—which just takes some self-awareness of the times we're being a cook and an epiphany that it's not actually as scary as it seems to reason independently and act on it.

I took the shot." It was invigorating, even exciting. "Hey, when all the chips were on the line, you didn't leave your future up to others, YOU TOOK YOUR SHOT." Instantly I felt free and in control.

In order to 'have' you must 'do,' and in order to 'do' you must 'be.'" Terry Crews

deontologist believes that for something to be ethically correct, it must abide by a predefined set of moral rules or ideologies, and if an action breaks those rules then it is immoral, regardless of the outcome. A consequentialist believes that the moral value of an action purely depends on its outcome—the act itself doesn't carry moral weight, all that matters is whether its consequences are good or bad overall.

Way of Life app.

Being busy is not the same as being productive. In fact, being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

3—Do 5 to 10 Reps of Something (<1 minute)

If you can't define or act upon it, forget it.

Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things," he said. "Sometimes they just need a little nudge.

This book is for anyone who is sick of the deferred-life plan and wants to live life large instead of postpone it.

Don't provoke deliberation before you can take action.

Timothy Ferriss

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." –Niccolò Machiavelli

Timothy Ferriss

This moment in history demands that we put purpose before profit, that we take more seriously the fact that we have the tools, the imagination, and the resources to solve our toughest problems. So it is time to get on with it.

Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss

We want to attach ourselves to narratives. We don't act because of equations. We follow our beliefs. We get behind leaders who stir our feelings.

Commit, within financial reason, to action instead of theory. Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of academia.

Timothy Ferriss

Quizá la acción no traiga siempre consigo la felicidad, pero no hay felicidad sin acción.»

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Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.