Quotes About Action

Leo! Houd hem tegen! ... Leo. O, Leo, wat heb ik gedaan? - Alice

Which way do we run when we see danger: away from it, or towards it?" "It depends on what the danger is," Helen said. "No. It depends on what is at stake.

Our brains are designed to arrive at an accurate picture of the world, and to use that accurate picture to act on the world effectively, at least overall and in the long run. The same computational and neurological capacities that let us make discoveries about physics or biology also let us make discoveries about love.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.

The Guns of Navarone

The headman nodded, then asked: "So is this is the cause of rebirth, Sir?" "It is. An individual may have to take an indefinite number of births to harvest the effects of all his latent impressions, and then, in each fresh lifetime there is further action, which sows further seeds of karma".

Well, it will continue until the destruction of its cause". "And what is that, Sir?" "The way we identify with our body as the doer of action. And this lifelong habit is only destroyed by knowing oneself to be the bodiless Self. This is why it is said that knowledge is the fire that reduces karma to ashes".

If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Serei na vida futura aquilo que eu próprio houver feito de mim nesta vida;

Se tua mão é motivo de escândalo, corta-a; afirmativa enérgica que seria um absurdo se tomada ao pé da letra. Significa, simplesmente, a necessidade de destruir em si todas as causas de escândalo,

Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

The status quo is not a likely option- we will improve our world or we will destroy it

Men expect too much, do too little.

It is striking that motivation plays virtually no role in Hegel's theory of action, because Hegel's theory of action in effect replaces motives with intentions or (internal) reasons. Instead of asking what psychic factors motivated me, Hegel asks for an explanation of my action in terms of the act-descriptions that supply the reasons I had for doing what I did.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

The past is who you are. The future is what you do with that.

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

I also packed explosives." -Liz

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?