Quotes About Action

A first order of conclusions will likely appear even more abstract and difficult! It is that Christians must not judge, act, or live according to principles, but according to the reality of the eschaton, lived out here and now. This is exactly the opposite of a moralism.

It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.

Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of his mind's adventures for the voice of truth. Every speaking subject is the poet of himself and of things. Perversion is produced when the poem is given as something other than a poem, when it wants to be imposed as truth, when it wants to force action.

La pensée ne se transmet pas à l'action. C'est une pensée qui se transmet à une pensée et une action qui en provoque une autre. La pensée agit pour autant qu'elle accepte de ne pas très bien savoir ce qui la pousse elle-même et renonce à garder la maîtrise de ses effets

On ne passe pas de la vision d'un spectacle à une compréhension du monde et d'une compréhension intellectuelle à une décision d'action.

There are two kinds of scholars: those who act on their knowledge, these are the saved ones; and those who do not put into practise what they know, these are led to their downfall.

I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.

Mejor es hacer algo y arrepentirse, que arrepentirse de no haberlo hecho.»

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice, the only wrong choice is choosing not to make one

The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.

When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem.

No action in the present is an action planned with a view of its effect on the future. When the future, bearing its own events, arrives, its ancestry is then traced in a trancelike retrospect, at the end of which, their mouths and eyes wide with their astonishment, the people in a small place reveal themselves to be like children being shown the secrets of a magic trick.

You do not fail when you try, you fail when you do not try."

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair. ...Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. "Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough.

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...

understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead." He paused, then added,

Any marnin' th' good Lord lets'ee open your eyes, that's a day he's got somethin' f'r ye t' do.