Quotes About Action

If greatness is your goal, it can only be achieved today.

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays." —Meredith Willson

Just do it.

Something dropped on her shoulder, but even as she screamed, her heart stopping midbeat, the next oncoming branch swept the tarantula away. Aww! Ick! She manically brushed her shoulder with her free hand, every inch of her covered in goose bumps. "When running from people who're trying to kill you," Walker advised as he kept dragging her, "it's better to stay quiet. Generally speaking.

Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said, tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away.

You don't play, you can't win.

Damnation, she's bleeding!" he roared, the sight shocking him into action. He spun around, nearly colliding with his flag-captain, his flag-lieutenant, the first lieutenant, and a little midshipman who looked as though he was about to piss his breeches. "Damn your eyes, Colin, how the hell could you simply let her walk off the flagship?!

A cutlass thrust itself before his nose. "I mean it, Gray!" Never pausing, he knocked it aside and began to haul himself up and over the gunwale. She tried to step on his fingers as he reached for a hold. He grabbed her ankle. She pulled her knife on him. He snared her wrist and threw the weapon aside. She screamed every curse she knew at him. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, to the wild cheers of her own traitorous crew.

Plan I—Plying the Enemy with Flowers and Gifts—was not working. Plan II—Bringing Aboard the Enemy's Crew— seemed to be failing miserably. It was time to put Plan III—Enticing the Enemy Out of Port—into action.

The national plan is about all of us moving together. It's also not a national plan for picnics, just quietly

out Johnson could do nothing beyond publicly register his opposition.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

While successful culture can look and feel like magic, the truth is that it's not. Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. It's not something you are. It's something you do.

Pick Up Trash:

participants look at the task as a whole—as one big chunk, the megacircuit. Second, they divide it into its smallest possible chunks. Third, they play with time, slowing the action down, then speeding it up, to learn its inner architecture

Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. It's not something you are. It's something you do.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

ne feriare feri' (strike lest thou be stricken).

I asked, "How do you think that would work?" The major said, "If they didn't get any Execute message? Oh, I think they'd come back." Pause. "Most of them." The last three words didn't register with me right away because before they were out of his mouth, my head was exploding. I kept my face blank but a voice inside was screaming, "Think? You think they'd come back?!

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

Best offense is the one that fails to trigger the best defense.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.12 Feeling

When frustration is unchecked, Sam, it turns into rage, and rage triggers action.