Quotes About Action

Thought is a movement of electrons and consciousness is a merely a chemical action.

This becoming more aware of what is happening now, and attempting to respond only to what is happening now, has almost magical results in relieving the "jitters." The next time you feel yourself tensing up, becoming jittery and nervous—pull yourself up short and say, "What is there here and now that I should respond to? That I can do something about?

All that the forebrain does is to select the goal, trigger it into action by desire, and feed information to the automatic mechanism so that your hand continually corrects its course.

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.

afraid of making

Psychologist H. L. Hollingworth said that happiness requires problems, plus a mental attitude that is ready to meet distress with action toward a solution.

Negative feedback always says in effect, "Stop what you're doing, or the way you're doing it—and do something else." Its purpose is to modify response, or change the degree of forward action—not to stop all action. Negative feedback does not say, "Stop—period!" It says, "What you are doing is wrong," but it does not say, "It is wrong to do anything.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.

Sometimes you have to risk something to get something out of something.

We become what we do.

Nije ?ovjek ono što misli, ve? ono što ?ini.

pravda je pravo da u?inimo ono što mislimo da treba...

Iz njega je izlazilo znanje kao rijeka, kao potop, zatrpavala su te imena, zbivanja, strah te hvatao od gužve što je u tom ?ovjeku živjela kao da sad postoji, kao da to nisu aveti i sjenke ve? živi ljudi koji neprestano djeluju, u nekoj strašnoj vje?nosti postojanja.

Do vraga, ništa nije toliko naopako kao dobro u?injeno s ciljem, ni toliko glupo kao ?ovjek koji nešto ho?e po svome kalupu.

Ima stvari koje se moraju u?initi, ali je još više stvari sa kojima se moramo pomiriti.

Ne smijem da hodam sokacima poput mjesecara, sa uzetom voljom kao bogalj. Nije covek ono sto misli, vec ono sto cini.

I rije? obavezuje, i ona je ?in, obavezuje me pred drugima ali i preda mnom.

Svemu treba i?i u susret, ništa ne treba ?ekati. Ako ?ovek nije ni glup ni kukavica nije ni bespomo?an

Ovo je drugi svijet, dalek i nerazumljiv. U?inili su, i gotovo! U?inili su, i šta treba o tome pri?ati? Mi prosti ljudi volimo da sladimo i preživamo ono što doživamo. Oni djeluju i zaboravljaju.

Well, you know, trying's a trap. It's the doing makes the donkey drive.