Quotes About Action

The nudge provided by asking people what they intend to do can be accentuated by asking them when and how they plan to do it. This

Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick decision, and the prompt seizure of opportunities - and that all this activity was not propitious for deliberation, elaboration, or precision in thought.

Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.

Some men might make a complicated business of going after a burglar. It was simple and easy, the way I handled it. I crept quietly downstairs and into the dark living-room, and parried a blackjack with my head.

If you're holding a sapling in your hand when the Messiah arrives, first plant the sapling and then go out and greet the Messiah.

Do you run away or toward?

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plan a tree? Twenty years ago.

When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.

When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

It depends on a person's ability to say nevertheless, to do one small thing that seems beyond them, and, for a moment, break the grip of time.

legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.

The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

Best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago." "Yep. And you always said the next best time was now." "Wrong. Next best time, nineteen years ago.

whatever work your hands can do, do now, for there is no work for you in that place where you are going.

Holy jump up and sit down.

it. There is great, joyous, and essential work to do. But first a person needs to graduate from endless self-love.

He waits too long, and time replies for him.

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.

I presume, everyone feels who has done something that he knows will have very far-reaching consequences which he cannot foresee.

Although personally I am quite content with the existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement, and I therefore think that action should be taken in the sense proposed by Lord Cherwell.

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.