Quotes About Action

there's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.

É certo que me influenciaram e são mais ou menos responsáveis pelo acto que cometi em seguida; quero porém continuar a pensar que esse acto é apenas meu, e ficaria especialmente irritado se o imputassem à influência directa de alguma filosofia existente.

Hanio believed that his ideas were all rooted in meaninglessness and they blossomd into life at the very moment when meaning was created. For that reason, he never once initiated any action on the grounds that it was meaningful. People who ascribe meaning to their actions ended up staring meaninglessness in the face, in a state of frustration and hopelessness.

It was suitable that he, whose life had been so incomparably pure a structure, should suffer the pure death of an accident. In that collision, which had lasted no more than a second, there had been a sudden contact and his life had merged with his death. A swift chemical action. Without doubt it was only by such a drastic method that this strange, shadowless young man could join both his shadow and his death.

El sueño de alcanzar lo absoluto. Soñar, soñar, pero como este sueño es romántico, no se puede cumplir jamás. La imposibilidad de tal cumplimiento la representa el arte, mientras que su posibilidad la representa la acción. Exactamente esto es el camino conjunto de la pluma y de la espada.

Idiots, don't get ready to die, get ready to kill (Shuri, Basara, Vol. 9)

Humans are used to thinking about life as a drama of decision-making.

I choose to want to. This is of course false. I don't choose my desires. I only feel them, and act accordingly.

It is often said that God helps those who help themselves. This is a roundabout way of saying that God doesn't exist, but if our belief in Him inspires us to do something ourselves – it helps.

Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it.

Instead of praying for miracles, we need to ask what we can do to help.

Since there is no national answer to the problem of global warming, some nationalist politicians prefer to believe the problem does not exist.

the world is full of misery, it is our duty to find solutions.

el hecho de que algo pueda hacerse no significa que tenga que hacerse.

ask these politicians four questions: If you are elected, what actions will you take to lessen the risks of nuclear war? What actions will you take to lessen the risks of climate change? What actions will you take to regulate disruptive technologies such as AI and bioengineering? And finally, how do you see the world of 2040? What is your worst-case scenario, and what is your vision for the best-case scenario?

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, 'It's all over, don't bother trying to do anything, forget about voting, it won't make a difference,' and an optimist who says, 'Relax, everything is going to turn out fine.' Either way the results are the same. Nothing gets done.

I have a little different definition of evil than most people. When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that's evil. Evil doesn't always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

The next time someone whines that baseball doesn't have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. "Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: "Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

every day our beliefs guide our actions and it is up to us to make the impossible become possible.

Like an arrow sprung from a bow Betty flashed past the Colonel and out on the green. Scarcely ten of the long hundred yards had been covered by her flying feet when a roar of angry shouts and yells warned Betty that the keen-eyed savages saw the bag of powder and now knew they had been deceived by a girl.

Get up, an' take my scarf," said Wade, "an' bandage these bullet-holes I got.

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.