Quotes About Action

I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

To be forgiven, the person has to be sorry. In Judaism, that's called teshuvah. It means 'turning away from evil.' It's not a one-time deal, either. It's a course of action. A single act of repentance is something that makes the person who committed the evil feel better, but not the person against whom evil was committed.

It turns out that the more you repeat the same action, no matter how reprehensible, the more you can make an excuse for it in your own mind.

It was the sort of place where you could hear the tumblers of your mind falling into place as you pieced thought together, as you tried to match it to action.

Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines.  Try something new, even if it scares you to death.  Learn because you love to learn, not because you're being tested.  Don't whine – there is always someone who's having a worse day than you are.  Be honest with yourself, and you'll never have anything to hide.   

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat pushed away, at what moment the anchor let go? You couldn't, and that was that. You and your deductions from the outcomeL a successful landing or a spiraling fall.

whatever does happen the way it's supposed to? You don't plan life, you just do it.

When the universe calls, don't place it on hold.

Doesn't it count for anything if Josef wishes he hadn't done it?" Leo looks at me. "What counts," he says, "is that he did."  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

You've never gone down the street and had someone cross it just because you're black. You've never had someone look at you with disgust because you're holding a baby and you forgot to put on your wedding ring. You want to do something about it-take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots-but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling, Jordan. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.

In Judaism, that's called teshuvah. It means 'turning away from evil.' It's not a one-time deal, either. It's a course of action. A single act of repentance is something that makes the person who committed the evil feel better, but not the person against whom evil was committed.

I shouldn't have said 'retreat'; that word wasn't in the book. Retrograde action.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Time flies when you're firing a sub machine gun. 

Maybe. Because he's got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Inaction is itself an action;

Real life happens in real time, and decisions have to be made in an instant.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.

You have free will, so you can ignore the idea, or you can decide to bring it into reality.