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Quotes About Action

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
~ Richard Morris
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
~ Nancy Pelosi
While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.
~ Scott Weiss
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
~ Steven Spielberg
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.
~ Bethany Hamilton
There is no longer time for statements like 'if only' or 'we can't.' We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.
~ Bob Riley
Where There is a will there is a will to search and discover a better day Where a positive heart is all you need to rise beyond and succeed Where young minds grow and respect each other based on their deeds and not their color when times are dim say as I say "Where there's a will there's a way!
~ Tupac Shakur
Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness.
~ Unknown
If you're at a dead end, take a deep breath, stamp your foot, and shout "Begin!" You never know where it will take you.
~ Twyla Tharp
There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.
~ Twyla Tharp
Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they've started work on a project-- say, a book-- but some time passes, and when you politely ask how it's going, they tell you that they're still researching. Weeks, months, years pass and they produce nothing. They have tons of research but it's never enough to nudge them toward the actual process of writing the book.
~ Twyla Tharp
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
~ Twyla Tharp
They key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun.
~ Twyla Tharp
Use your worry, but know when to leave it behind.
~ Twyla Tharp
There is nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tacks.
~ Twyla Tharp
A hunter only shoots a deer he can see, if you ain't being seen you ain't doing nothing!
~ Tyler Perry
The first thing you do to get over your depression is open up the curtains, put on some good music, take you a shower, get up, put on a good face, and open the door and go out and see the world. Everything that's kicking you, kick it back.
~ Tyler Perry
But God ain't going to do a thing until you get up and do something yourself. Everything starts with you.
~ Tyler Perry
il ne suffit pas de prendre en soi-même une décision pour acquérir la dignité ; il faut que cette décision soit suivie d'un acte qui en découle, et qui soit perceptible par les autres (même s'ils ne sont pas là pour le percevoir). Telle serait donc notre première définition de la dignité.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Life is simply a process of stimulus and response; and stimulus and response are one unitary movement.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Courage is not an instrument or quality you can use to get somewhere. The stopping of doing is courage. The ending of tradition in you is courage.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
We invent what is called a thoughtless state or an effortless state, I don't know for what reason. Why one should be in an effortless state is beyond me. But to be in an effortless state or to act effortlessly we use effort. That's absurd. We don't seem to have any way of putting ourselves into a thoughtless state except through thought.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!
~ U.G. Krishnamurti