Quotes About Action

Courage was simply a form of moving forward.

Sometimes," Oisín said, "people simply do things. They get an idea and do it, and it's not tied up with any love or childhood trauma. If we believe there's a dramatic origin story for every human endeavor, we deprive our species of the ability to simply conjure an idea. To just make stuff and do things.

If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Whatever you do, do something positive.

You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life, that's just being a tourist.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS

Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what "done" means (outcome) and (2) what "doing" looks like (action).

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder

We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information.

1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

You can try it for yourself right now, if you like. Choose one project that is new or stuck or that could simply use some improvement. Think of your purpose. Think of what a successful outcome would look like: where would you be physically, financially, in terms of reputation, or whatever? Brainstorm potential steps. Organize your ideas. Decide on the next actions. Are you any clearer about where you want to go and how to get there?

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it done. The list of projects is the compilation of finish lines we put before us, to keep our next actions moving on all tracks appropriately

What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. —Peter F. Drucker

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it 'done.

Throw away, shred, or recycle anything that has no potential future action or reference value.

The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions. That

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because what "doing" would look like, and where it happens, hasn't been decided. In

Finally (assuming that you're really committed to the project—in this case, going out to dinner), you focus on the next action that you need to take to make the first component actually happen. "Call Café Rouge to see if it's open, and make the reservation.

Think carefully about where and when and under what circumstances you can do which actions, and organize your lists accordingly.

next actions. Those ideas fall into the broad category of "project support materials," and may be anything from a notion about something you might want to do on your next vacation

Instead, the key to managing all of your stuff is managing your actions.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

Talk does not cook rice. —Chinese proverb

how they might be articulated into productive shape.