Quotes About Action

combat team in the Galaxy into a leaderless, lawless, fear-crazed mob. "The whole merciless load will land without warning. You must act at once and you'll have only God over you. Don't expect Him to fill in tactical details;

It is easy to panic and either open a chute too soon and become a sitting duck (do ducks really sit?—if so, why?) or fail to open it and break your ankles, likewise backbone and skull.

If you want to affect your environment, don't get lost in your activism. Stop for a moment and make a mandorla. Don't just do — be something.

The human figures in the large biblical landscape act as free agents out of the impulses of a memorable and often fiercely assertive individuality, but the actions they perform all ultimately fall into the symmetries and recurrences of God's comprehensive design. Chapter 5 - The Techniques of Repetition

The sixth circuit of the brain kicks into action when the nervous system begins to receive signals from within the individual neuron — from the RNA-DNA "dialogue," the neurogenetic feedback system.

If God is not mad, as Fort claimed, then maybe God is, as Buckminster Fuller once wrote, not a noun but a verb. That is, God is what religious people do, as, in some models, an electron is an operation performed by people (physicists) — God as the act of praying, the energy raised

Since words contain both denotations (referents in the sensory-existential world) and connotations (emotional tones and poetic or rhetorical hooks), humans can be moved to action even by words which have no real meaning or reference in actuality. This is the mechanism of demagoguery, advertising and much of organized religion.

Boredom is mostly caused by not doing what you want to do which is caused by not knowing what to do or not knowing how to get out of a situation that you are in.

I don't think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It's just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit." "Wow," Hawk said.

Candy nodded absently. "Okay," she said. "What shall I wear?" "A gun," I said.

if you lay back and let oblivion roll over you, it will be your fault.

To kill a man you need three things: the gun and the balls?" "We can get the gun okay

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Stop the whining and get to work!

The fact that one thing precedes another doesn't mean one thing causes another." "Oh," she said. "I know all that. But do I want to risk getting killed for some fucking formal logic rule?" "No," I said. "You don't.

What I must do concerns me, not what people think.' 

You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not the movies. You're in a crisis situation, you got about a half second to do what needs to be done. Your

A way of living better is to make the decisions you need to make based on what you can control. When you can.

When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.

But meanwhile he had to do something about the way his heart pounded.

Read the text right and emancipate the world. – Robert Browning

Look into our histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject but what a company of hare-brains have done in their rage.

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes I do, I do. I think.

Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and, knowing it, understood it, or if they were simply oblivious, carried along by a force that was felt but not seen. The same thing happens to people, but most of the time they don't know it, or when they know it, they think it an action of their own devising. They are usually wrong.