Quotes About Action

Prioritize and execute.

Radio traffic in your ears adds to the storm and demands a conscious response, which means one's actions in the moment must be subconscious.

Not the action. The mission. I miss the mission.

Only concealment, not cover. Move, Reece!

Speed. Surprise. Violence of action.

Later, Reece. Make sense of this later. Win the fight. Prioritize and execute. Where is the nearest threat?

You don't have to like it; you just have to do it.

I find that major trends are now frequently preceded by a sharp price change in the opposite direction. I still make my judgments as to probable price trends based on overall market action, as I always did. However, with a few exceptions, I now buy on breaks and sell on rallies.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it." Oscar Wilde / #Hole_in_my_Life By Jack Gantos

Yes, we should pound our fists over persisting ills we see, but unless we also put our hands to work in providing workable solutions to those problems, what are we left with in the end but bruised fists and a bitter heart?

You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today.

an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

We are rarely lazy—we are simply afraid.

Spiritual practice is not a mindless repetition of ritual or prayer. It works through consciously realizing the law of cause and effect. Perhaps we can sense the potential of awakening in ourselves, but we must also see that it doesn't happen by itself. How we act, how we relate to ourselves, to our bodies, to the people around us, to our work, creates the kind of world we live in, creates our very freedom.

You can't change it all, but your freedom empowers you to contribute to the world, and your love gives you the way to do so.

There are two kinds of difficulties. Some are clearly problems to solve, situations that call for compassionate action and direct response. Many more are problems we create for ourselves by struggling to make life different than it is or by becoming so caught up in our own point of view that we lose sight of a larger, wiser perspective. Usually

The way to work with desire in meditation is the same way we worked with body sensations. It is not very useful to suppress it, because when you do it comes out in some other way. On the other hand, you do not want to act on it either. If you are like me and you acted on all of your desires, they would lock you up. So you do not want to suppress your desires, and you also do not want to act all of them out.

There is a vitality, a life force that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

Do not ignore the effect of each wise action saying, "This will come to nothing." Just as by the gradual fall of raindrops the water jar is filled, so in time the wise become replete with good. Dhammapada

Was having someone else hunt and kill for you any different, morally, than doing it yourself, or was it worse because it removed you from the act while still requiring the kill?