Quotes About Action

How do you deal with it? How do you keep from falling apart? That—What happened to them is horrible. How can a person do that to another?" Rose took a slow breath. "You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it." I watched her leave, the clack of her quick heels sounding sharp before the door closed. Yeah. I can do that.

Pulse fast, I headed for the hall, a gallon of salsa on my hip, a tomato in my hand, and a pixy on my shoulder. Yeah, we bad.

Grim-faced, Jenks shouted, "What are you waiting for, Ivy? God to say go?

had my splat gun, but I wasn't a brave person. I ran away from big-bad-uglies. It increased my life span dramatically.

Does this thing move, or do you just sit in it and play with yourself?

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action. ... Fate is the path of least action.

The people are suffering. Relieving people's poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

If you don't act on it, it wasn't a true feeling

Any physical action, properly studied and practiced, could no doubt be accomplished with a reasonable amount of skill, if not flair.

Kim Stanley Robinson

They were just like the Swiss on Mars, like Jurgen and Max and Priska and Sibilla, with their sense of order, of appropriate action well performed, with a tough unsentimental love of comfort, of predictable decency.

When in doubt, just do it. Try something and observe the results. Good-enough decision algorithm

Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good?

To conclude and temporarily halt this train of thought, how does any entity know what it is? Hypothesis: by the actions it performs. There is a kind of comfort in this hypothesis. It represents a solution to the halting problem. One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?

Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force.

Judging by the results so far, it had possibly been a bad idea to suggest a scientific approach to political problems, but on most days Frank was still glad they had tried it. Something had to be done. Although choosing which something remained a problem.

One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable

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A sudden douche of terror then squirted itself all over Dixon. After a moment he realized that this was because he had a plan and was about to carry it out. He panted a little with the enormity of it, then drained his glass and said quaveringly: Here goes then. Good-bye for now.

God hoeft ons niet te straffen. Hij geeft ons gewoon genoeg tijd van leven om het zelf te doen. pag. 341

Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.