Quotes About Action

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please,

Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?

We are what we do repeatedly.

Si dejas que el aprendizaje te lleve a la acción, te haces rico».

también, si te permite poner en práctica una capacidad que hayas desarrollado.»

Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

Regret is past-tense decision making.

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 16th-century Italian philosopher, dubbed "the father of modern political science," author of The Prince

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. You can control most of the risks, and you can't imagine the rewards.

If I believed this, how would it affect my decisions in the next week? Over the next 6 to 12 months?

If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

No idea is so big that you can't take the first step. If the first step seems too hard, make it simpler. And don't worry again if the idea is bad. This is all practice.

Los últimos tres minutos: «Me concentro en tres cosas que haré que sucedan, mis "tres para crecer"… Hay que verlo como si ya estuviera hecho, sentir las emociones, etc.

Zami?owanie do krz?taniny to jeszcze nie przedsi?biorczo??.

He had realized something while arcing in slow circles toward the earth—risks weren't that scary once you took them. His

Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" –Rabbi Hillel

Naucz si? pyta?: "Je?li jest to jedyna rzecz, jak? mog? dzi? wykona?, to czy b?d? zadowolony z dzisiejszego dnia?".

Narzu? sobie niemo?liwie krótkie terminy, by zmusi? si? do natychmiastowych dzia?a? i odrzucenia drobiazgów.

My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

Generally, what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I think that as you survey the challenges in your lives, it's just: Which of those did you assign yourself, and which of those are you doing to please someone else? Your inbox is a to-do list to which anyone in the world can add an action item. I needed to get out of my inbox and back to my own to-do list.