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Quotes About Action

Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society.
~ Paul Goodman
Just fix things that seem broken, regardless of whether it seems likes the problem is important enough to build a company on.
~ Paul Graham
you need to start doing something people want. You don't need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.6
~ Paul Graham
This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.
~ Paul Graham
I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done
~ Paul H. Nitze
The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.
~ Paul Halmos
As Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has said, making the transition to a plant-based diet may well be the most effective way an individual can stop climate change. Recent research suggests he is right: Few climate solutions of this magnitude lie in the hands of individuals or are as close as the dinner plate.
~ Paul Hawken
Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.
~ Paul Levine
This is our world now, whether you accept it or not. In some ways, we are pawns to greater powers. Expendable to a greater game. I'm not a pawn. You are if you don't wake up and do something.
~ Unknown
the single difference between success and failure, between gain and loss, has boiled down to two words: applied knowledge.
~ Unknown
Do as others do, not as they say. Sometimes, what people tell you to do with stocks is not as revealing as what people are actually doing. This is why I like to look at company insiders before I buy or sell a particular stock.
~ Unknown
It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.
~ Paul Neilan
See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.
~ Paul Palnik
Effective combat leadership should empower the fighting troops to take initiative and decisive action at the lowest level to support the common goal.
~ Unknown
Do not dwell on dying. Focus on your training and what you are going to do to ensure your survival.
~ Unknown
There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
~ Unknown
riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago, and with only a very sketchy idea of the problems of administering Imperial
~ Paul Scott
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
~ Paul Simon
I am not interested in excuses for delay; I am interested only in a thing done.
~ Paul Theroux
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
~ Paulo Coelho
No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up
~ Paulo Coelho
you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
~ Paulo Coelho