Quotes About Action

You can't change the world in the space of a single conversation, can you?

Accepting that you can't control the outcome is not the end of action—it is the opening for the boldest and most daring action. You can accept total responsibility for your choices and actions. You are free to play full-out in creating and implementing an extraordinary future for yourself and your organization.

The American leaders could only bring this new realm of possibility into existence by making a declaration—a form of conversation. Once human rights were declared, actions that would never have been conceived before came naturally to mind.

When you accept that life does not turn out the way it "should," you are free to take actions that are not constrained by the need to control life so it turns out the way that it "should" (or, at the very least, to make sure life doesn't turn out the way it "shouldn't").

You are shifting from … … action occurring as "a series of activities"… … to … … action occurring as a series of conversations.

It means committing yourself to continuously act consistent with the possibility you declared, from the moment the declaration is spoken, regardless of the circumstances.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

Your Winning Strategy is not what you do. It is the source of what you do. It is a manifestation of who you are being.

Taking a Stand A declaration of commitment to act consistent with a specific "declared possibility" to move that possibility to a reality.

For as long as your Winning Strategy is your ground of being, it will never occur to you to take any actions beyond it.

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

What words are in you that can change the world?

He believed fully that whatever suffering we experience is due to our own doing, and not due to a divine hand. Therefore, the pacification of suffering is also in our own hands. This was his idea of karma.

Okay, Fish, we fly in there, and we kill those motherfuckers,

Hey if there is a fire, you have to throw gas on it.

Why do they do what they do with such regularity, such mindfulness, such devotion? They do it because it is their sacred work. They do it because not to do it would be to deny what they know is theirs to manage and care about. The right action does not depend upon having a right outcome. It depends on taking the action because that is the action that rises before you in the moment with all its grace and power and majesty -- and because it demands to be done. The action is all.

The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can't see you do it and what kind of responsibility do you have when you can do it. What kind of good things can you do or can you do good things from being invisible in this way?

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

There's a medical term for it, actually. It's called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.

Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.

When in danger or in doubt hoist the sail and fuck off out. . . .

What, exactly, are you doing here?" "We're trying to prevent a war. Isn't that what Jedi are supposed to do?" ?Mara Jade Skywalker and Alema Rar