Quotes About Action

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.

There's nothing like waiting on the move of God; when you move you'll see God in action

We live in a world where to be powerless is a risk The future is not a mystery but a function of what we do today

My kids became mine through a series of overt acts

remember, when you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

have tried to show the scale of the problem and suggest some actions our Government should take to help us out of our current economic quagmire. These have included giving our bureaucrats a short, sharp shock with the imposition of a four-day week; scrapping corporation tax; bringing in a False Claims Act; cutting the cost of politics; protecting our national assets; taking on the pensions and unit trust industry and standing up to the EU.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

Unfortunately, you're wrong. Motivation does not come first, action does! You have to prime the pump. Then you will begin to get motivated, and the fluids will flow spontaneously.

Witness calls for with ness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted....

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Just remember that self-discipline is not self-suppression. Suppression is when you resist and fight against your desires, keeping them as buried and unexpressed as possible. Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.

Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.

If two programs respond in the same way to every possible action by the user, then they render the same environment; if they would respond perceptibly differently to even one possible action, they render different environments.

First initiative, then life.

Why do we classify all the mental things together as the mental at all? I think action is mental because it's intentional, in the sense that it's directed on to something other than itself. So when you act, when you go to buy yourself a coffee, you're aiming at something beyond yourself, namely the result of getting a coffee.

Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states.

Supremely rational investors take the further step of acting against consensus, rebalancing to long-term portfolio targets by buying the out-of-favor and selling the in-vogue.

John Maynard Keynes criticized fiduciaries for preferring to "fail conventionally" rather than taking, as Swensen so often does, direct responsibility for independent, even pioneering thought and action.

Let's set the place afire.

El corazón, pese a estar siempre lleno de vacilaciones y de incertidumbres, te impulsa a hacer algo, a actuar, para que nunca puedas lamentar no haberlo intentado todo

En ocasiones tenemos que actuar de forma sorprendente, derrapar y salirnos de lo cotidiano en cierto modo, para saber lo que el otro piensa realmente de nosotros.