Quotes About Action

Hay gente que no hace más que soñar y hay gente que no hace más que actuar, y ambas cosas son buenas y malas. La gente como Josey no tiene visión y la gente como yo no tiene impulso para pasar a la acción.

And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time. It's the way I've discovered to not do a damn thing.

Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.

after Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you.

Shit doesn't just happen in a void, there're ripples and consequences and even with all that there's still a whole fucking world going on, whether you're doing something or not.

Triple T, K A.... time to totally kick ass.

The 4Rs: Recognize. Release. Respond. Receive.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

you persist in playing the role of a spoiled, petulant debutante without the wit to realize your every action has a consequence.

You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; You only can act yourself into new ways of thinking.

the actions that have contributed to our well-being

A menos que "nos tornemos a mudança que desejamos ver acontecer no mundo" (como diria meu avô), nenhuma mudança jamais acontecerá. Infelizmente, estamos todos esperando que os outros mudem primeiro.

I believe that human beings are always acting in the service of needs and values. This is true whether the action does or does not meet the need, or whether it's one we end up celebrating or regretting.

If you want to change anything about yourself, the best time to start is now. Ask yourself, "What am I willing to change now?" Just do that. That's more than enough. For now.

When we regret our own decisions—and do nothing about it—we are no better than a whining employee complaining about his superiors. We are yelling at an empty boat, except it's our boat.

The most reliable predictor of what you will be doing five minutes from now is what you are doing now.

Regret is the emotion we experience when we assess our present circumstances and reconsider how we got here. We replay what we actually did against what we should have done—and find ourselves wanting in some way. Regret can hurt.

We do not appreciate inertia's power over us. Given the choice, we prefer to do nothing

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there. My experience tells me that the only effective approach is looking people in the eye and saying, "If you want to change, do this.

Just because people understand what to do doesn't ensure that they will actually do it.

No one expects you to act on every piece of advice.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

I've created a monster" "No you just released one.

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