Quotes About Action

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

Non si può costruire una reputazione basata sull'intenzione di fare qualcosa.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Naïveté was in fact warmly embraced. It proved a useful alternative to describing an action or statement as ingenuous, an adjective which contemporary users were apt to confuse with ingenious.19

A person's conscience will object and accuse when an action may be harmful to themselves and others.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably

Tradition matters because it is not given to societies to proceed through history as if they had no past and as if every course of action were available to them. they may deviate from the previous trajectory only within a finite margin. the great statesmen act at the outer limit of that margin. if they fall short, society stagnates. if they exceed it, they lose the capacity to shape posterity.

Since it is impossible to be prepared for all eventualities, the assumption of the opponent's perfect flexibility leads to paralysis of action

um conjunto de regras de aceitação geral que define os limites de ação aceitáveis, e um equilíbrio de poder que impõe a contenção quando as regras são violadas, impedindo que determinada unidade política venha a subjugar as outras.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference to this end.

Se dice con frecuencia que más vale partir demasiado pronto que demasiado tarde, ya se trate de una carrera profesional, de una fiesta o de la vida misma.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

To conclude, in this chapter we have seen the characteristics of managing, as they were then and remain now: the pace, brevity, variety, fragmentation; the interruptions; the orientation to action; the oral aspect of the information; the lateral nature of much of the communication; and the tricky problem of exercising control without quite being in control.

He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. 'It's a pity I've run out of bullets,' he thought.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.