Quotes About Action

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. [...] The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart.

There is only one way to learn It's through action.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas—not consuming those of others.

Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

But one does not liberate someone by alienating them. Authentic liberation--the process of humanization--is not another deposit to be made in a person. Liberation is a praxis: action and reflection upon the world in order to transform it. Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking [pedagogical] methods of domination (propaganda, slogans--deposits) in the name of liberation.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

It's in making decisions that we learn to decide.

When a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world.

Cultural invasion is on the one hand an instrument of domination, and on the other, the result of domination. Thus, cultural action of a dominating character (like other forms of antidialogical action), in addition to being deliberate and planned, is in another sense simply a product of oppressive reality.

Just as objective social reality exists not by chance, but as the product of human action, so it is not transformed by chance. If humankind produce social reality, then transforming that reality is an historical task, a task for humanity.

To say one thing and do another - to take one's own word lightly - cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and negate man [sic] is a lie.

ÖÄŸretmen öÄŸretmelidir. Bunu yapmak zorundad?r. Ama öÄŸretmek bilgiyi aktarmak deÄŸildir. Bir eyleme öÄŸretme eylemi denebilmesi için, öÄŸrenme eyleminin öÄŸrencilerin ayn? zamanda kendilerine öÄŸretilen bilgiyi üreten kiÅŸiler haline geldikleri, içeriÄŸi ya da bilinebilir nesneyi kavrama eyleminden önce ya da onunla eÅŸ zamanl? olarak gerçekleÅŸmesi gerekir.

Only human beings are praxis--the praxis which, as the reflection and action which truly transform reality, is the source of knowledge and creation. Animal activity, which occurs without a praxis, is not creative; people's transforming activity is.

To this end, the invaders are making increasing use of the social sciences and technology, and to some extent the physical sciences as well, to improve and refine their action. It is indispensable for the invaders to know the past and present of those invaded in order to discern the alternatives of the latter's future and thereby attempt to guide the evolution of that future along lines that will favor their own interests.

Ler, não é caminhar sobre as letras, mas interpretar o mundo e poder lançar sua palavra sobre ele, interferir no mundo pela ação.

The theory without the practice becomes 'verbosity', as well as the practice without theory, turns activism. However, when it joins the practice with the theory has been the praxis, the creative and modifier action of reality.

In cultural invasion, both the spectators and the reality to be preserved are objects of the actors' action. In cultural synthesis, there are no spectators; the object of the actors' action is the reality to be transformed for the liberation of men.

A coerência não é, porém, imobilizante. Posso, no processo de agir-pensar, falar, escrever, mudar de posição. Minha coerência assim, tão necessária quanto antes, se faz com novos parâmetros. O impossível para mim é a falta de coerência, mesmo reconhecendo a impossibilidade de uma coerência absoluta.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

The radical is never a subjectivist. For this individual the subjective aspect exists only in relation to the objective aspect (the concrete reality, which is the object of analysis). Subjectivity and objectivity thus join in a dialectical unity producing knowledge in solidarity with action, and vice versa.

To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming,. Human beings are not built in silence,3 but in word, in work, in action-reflection.