Quotes About Action

Doing is inherently plural, collective, choral, communal.

In no instance were these reports true or were any of these cities actually in flames. But the result was immediate action on the part of white officials. They got in contact with important community and industrial leaders. Riot control measures were ordered into effect. Civilians armed themselves for the coming attack and stationed themselves at strategic points. In most cases many whites became aware of the "danger" and no local black person had any idea what was going on

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

It seemed to Alice that the drunk should have been struck dead for using such language in a church, but before God could take any action against the down-and-out, William resumed playing—with a vengeance.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?

Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.

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energy begets energy.

This ends now, gunslinger. Draw your weapon.

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

An articulate community, liberal in the United States, social democratic or socialist in Europe and Japan, does ascribe economic or other motive to the interest-serving view. This can be quite wrong. What rewards particular interest may reflect only a normal tendency to self-benefiting expression and action.

Out of that belief, thus instilled, then comes action—the bidding up of values, whether in land, securities, or, as recently, art. The upward movement confirms the commitment to personal and group wisdom. And so on to the moment of mass disillusion and the crash. This last, it will now be sufficiently evident, never comes gently. It is always accompanied by a desperate and largely unsuccessful effort to get out. Inherent

The consequences of successful action seemed almost as terrible as the consequences of inaction, and they could be more horrible for those who took the action. A bubble can easily be punctured. But to incise it with a needle so that it subsides gradually is a task of no small delicacy.

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

If only I had truly taken advantage of the situation, seized and held and prized the multitudes of advantages the summer offered me; if only I had.

When they torpedo the troopship," he shouted, " you can't stand around admiring the view. Jump!

Alright, Colby. How we wanna play this? In through the skylight? Side entrance? Sneak in the back? Are you kidding? Fuck all that shit. Poyo don't sneak.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do , Something you are, And something you give away

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.