Quotes About Action

Use your head; cut off theirs.

If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

Go where events flow fastest. Specifically what does that mean? It means, simply, make contact with people. Get involved. Don't be a sideliner, watching events flow past. Plunge into the events yourself.

In action, there was a fine line between courage which heartened others and bluster which incurred their contempt.

War is full of clichés, because only clichés can match the drama of the moment.

Nuestra misión actual es, antes bien, asegurar que en el futuro no vuelva a perderse la capacidad para la teoría y para la acción que nace de esta [...] Debemos luchar para que la humanidad no quede desmoralizada para siempre por los terribles acontecimientos del presente, para que la fe en un futuro feliz de la sociedad, en un futuro de paz y digno del hombre, no desaparezca de la tierra.

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

Aus fixen Ideen entstehen die Verbrechen.

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.

Política como vocación) La pasión no convierte al hombre en político si no está al servicio de una «causa» y no hace de la responsabilidad para con esa causa la estrella que oriente la acción. Para eso se necesita (y esta es la cualidad psicológica decisiva para el político) la mesura, capacidad para dejar que la realidad actúe sobre uno sin perder el recogimiento y la tranquilidad.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

Of course the Catholic ethic was an ethic of intentions. But the concrete intentio of the single act determined its value. And the single good or bad action was credited to the doer determining his temporal and eternal fate. Quite realistically the Church recognized that man was not an absolutely clearly defined unity to be judged one way or the other, but that his moral life was normally subject to conflicting motives and his action contradictory.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

The more suddenly you act the less effort will be needed.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle," I told him. "A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It's no wonder you feel shaky.

If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed.

Creative Imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It enters into our every act. For imagination sets the goal "picture" that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of "will," as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Just say to yourself: "I am going to imagine myself acting this way now

1. "Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet, Not After the Wheel Starts Turning