Quotes About Action

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

I honestly dont know whether I can ever top the experience of Pacific Rim.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.