Quotes About Action

Sometimes I ask myself, "Do I have the courage to do the right thing when it matters most?" And that answer, I'm afraid, is silence.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Because you cannot speak to unknown clients, there are only two solutions: either find your users and do a usability study, or be use case oriented. Work with use cases—that is, visions of the API user's action—and then optimize specifically for these. Getting responses from users via a usability study is good and can verify that your expectations about the use cases are correct.

God does not demand anything of us that God has not already done. In fact, God does not just ask us to do what God has done; God enables us to take that step.

It's more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action.

Good decisions don't so much need consensus as they need commitment.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

Culture is action, not words.

No time is no excuse

It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.

If you want to know the truth about what you've built, you have to ship it. You can test, you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

What you do is your legacy.

Todos tenemos ideas. Las ideas son inmortales. Duran siempre. Lo que no dura siempre es la inspiración. Es como la fruta fresca o la leche: tiene fecha de caducidad. Si quieres hacer algo, tienes que hacerlo ahora.

Decisions are progress. Each one you make is a brick in your foundation. You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of

Besides, the perfect time never arrives. You're always too young or old or busy or broke or something else. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

Promises are easy and cheap to make, actual work is hard and expensive.

It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going.

you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

Later is where excuses live. Later is where good intentions go to die. Later is a broken back and a bent spirit. Later says "all-nighters are temporary until we've got this figured out." Unlikely. Make the change now.

Si quieres hacer algo, tienes que hacerlo ahora. No puedes aparcarlo durante un par de meses y luego volver. Sencillamente, no te puedes permitir decir que lo harás más tarde. Más tarde ya no estarás entusiasmado.

When you put off decisions, they pile up. And piles end up ignored, dealt with in haste, or thrown out. As a result, the individual problems in those piles stay unresolved. Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward.