Quotes About Action

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

A veces, simplemente, basta con cambiar la manera de hacerlo. El «cómo» siempre es más importante que el «qué». Trata de conceder mucha más atención a lo que haces que al resultado que esperas obtener. Centra toda tu atención en lo que el momento te ofrezca.

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.

How" is always more important than "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy.

BOTTOM LINE: 1. Don't limp for three sessions. 2. Raise bigger pre-flop. 3. Consider re-raising or folding before you call a raise. 4. Want to limp, see Rule One. 5. Seriously, see Rule One.

Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear to ear, exposing three rows of long, white tusks. Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you will have some faint conception of Woola in action.

Bowen! she cried. Your knife!

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The lion was quite close to him now—but a few paces intervened—he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.

We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

There is but one thing to do, Alice, and he spoke as quietly as though they were sitting in their snug living room at home, and that is work. Work must be our salvation. We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.

meant action was expected. But it wasn't too late. All I had to do was tell him

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Intelligence did not figure largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.

Archer, through all his deeper feelings, tasted the pleasurable excitement of being in a world where action followed on emotion with such Olympian speed.

Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results.

The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.

As to the right of men to act anywhere according to their pleasure, without any moral tie, no such right exists. Men are never in a state of total independence of each other. It is not the condition of our nature: nor is it conceivable how any man can pursue a considerable course of action without its having some effect upon others; or, of course, without producing some degree of responsibility for his conduct.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.