Quotes About Action

The starting point for organizing the program content of education or political action must be the present, existential, concrete situation, reflecting the aspirations of the people. Utilizing certain basic contradictions, we must pose this existential, concrete, present situation to the people as a problem which challenges them and requires a response—not just at the intellectual level, but at the level of action.

It is only when the oppressed find the oppressor out and become involved in the organized struggle for their liberation that they begin to believe in themselves. This discovery cannot be purely intellectual but must involve action; nor can it be limited to mere activism, but must include serious reflection: only then will it be a praxis.

Sé q las cosas pueden incluso empeorar, pero también sé, q es posible intervenir para mejorarlas

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Understanding is a delaying tactic…," as one novelist put it. "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of water want to understand. Other people jump in and get wet.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

The stereotypical images we hold toward groups are powerful in influencing what people see and expect of students. Unless educators consciously try to undermine and work against these kinds of stereotypes, they often act on them unconsciously. Our assumptions related to race are so deeply entrenched that it is virtually impossible for us not to hold them unless we take conscious and deliberate action.

in this world All who live but dream they act here.

All who live but dream they act here.

advertid que es baja acción, que sólo a una fiera toca, madre de engaño y traición, el halagar con la boca y matar con la intención.

Mendo: "No es torpe, no, la invención; mas un cazador de ley no debe hacer tal acción pues oyendo el esquilón toman las aves por buey a vuestro padre el barón." Moncada: "Es verdad, no había caído... Vuestra advertencia es muy justa y os agradezco el cumplido. ¡El barón, por buey tenido!... No me gusta; no me gusta.

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.

I find this to be true of my spiritual life, and maybe it applies to yours as well: I think about things more than I do them; I ponder what seems their goodness more than I perform them. As if my thought alone were enough. But a thought alone isn't quite enough; it's an impulse and not a commitment, a passing thing that doesn't take root unless you plant it and make it grow.

How can we make this happen?

She got up from the armchair, into which she had plumped with horror, and started to bustle about the room. Jane often bustled about the room, suddenly remembering to stir her life, as though it were kept simmering on a low flame. When this was done, with nothing apparently achieved, she came back and sat by the fire, her arms clasped round her knees.

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

Most often, a problem is pointing your attention to an experience you need to have. So instead of looking for a strategy or action that will change the problematic situation, try relaxing into the situation to see what your soul wants you to notice

People love to criticise, to say what you should have done, what they would have done, when they usually do nothing at all, for anybody.

this is all exactly like an episode of Starsky and Hutch.