Quotes About Action

Il arrive si souvent qu'une action trop spontanée soit contre-productive

Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton. Go Ahead! Jouett, full speed! (the actual quote tha he made, that is paraphrased:

Pone merum et talos pereat qui crastina curat.

Environmentalism or conservation or preservation, or whatever it should be called, is not a fact, and never has been. It is a job.

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.

It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.)

Zodra mensen zich niet langer iets aantrekken van wat voor politiek realistisch doorgaat, opent zich een heel nieuwe wereld vol mogelijkheden" - interview De Groene Amsterdammer 7/8/2014

In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.

Only one life 'Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last.

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Reliability in this largely rational sense is the repeated experience of links between promises and action.

By starting with caring (working from the inside out), we open ourselves to possibilities and become willing to go where the client will take us. The skill or action behaviors can then fall on fertile ground. By

be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards. There is no "how" of life, one just does it.... It seems, however, to be terribly difficult for you not to be complicated and to do what is simple and closest to hand.... So climb down from the mountain of your humility and follow your nose. That is your way. 1

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

We need to get behind the surface appearances if we are to act coherently in the world. Otherwise, acting in response to misleading surface signals typically produces disastrous outcomes.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina. "It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

The Holy Spirit does the supernatural as we obey and do the practical.

Rash acts may spur rash consequences.

Rather than simply obey political power and implore the spirits to shape your fate in positive ways, the question of wisdom arises, and the empowerment that wisdom offers: act wisely and good things happen, act unwisely and bad things happen.

endeavor's nobility is ability, action's nobility is timing. When you never strive you never go wrong.