Quotes About Action

My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.

Screaming as they take a hit. Laughing as they deliver one.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.

READER, I RAN the fuck away.

Sensible decision making involves acting on the information we have, even while accepting that it may well be imperfect and our decisions may need to be revisited and revised in light of new information.

All scientific work is incomplete—whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.9

What are the relative risks of ignoring scientific claims that turn out to be true versus acting on claims that turn out to be false?194 The risks of not flossing are real, but not inordinate. The risks of not acting on the scientific evidence of climate change are inordinate.

He wrote such profound thoughts in such a deceptively simple way. Right off the bat, first paragraph, he tells you life is hard, that there are no simple answers, and that we should all stop moaning about it and get on with it. Love, he wrote, was action, not emotion.

Ask forgiveness, not permission,

You said I had two choices. You were wrong. I went with Option 3: burn it all to the fucking ground.

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.