Quotes About Action

Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

That's not hunting," I wrote, "that's just shooting.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve?

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

Amusing Ourselves to Death is a call to action. It is, in my father's words, "an inquiry ... and a lamentation," yes, but it aspires to greater things. It is an exhortation to do something. It's a counterpunch to what my father thought daily TV news was: "inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. This fact is the principal legacy of the telegraph: By generating an abundance of irrelevant information, it dramatically altered what may be called the "information-action ratio.

M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it.

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

I've never worked on quantum entanglement, which Einstein once dismissed as "spooky action at a distance." It's a real phenomenon, though, one that has less to do with communication than with a shared history that causes a pair of particles, even once they've been permanently separated, to behave as if they knew what each other was thinking.

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded...

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.