Quotes About Action

When there is a problem, do not just keep going with the intention of fixing it later. Stop and fix the problem now.

If you are responsible for a problem and make recommendations on possible solutions, you might be asked whether you went and looked at the situation yourself in person.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

It is nothing do with God, it's what men do in the name of God. In their craze of wanting to be known and loved by God. Of what they fear.

To refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one.

The most fundamental principle of learning theory is that behavior is a function of its consequences. When

Just as mission statements and talk can substitute for action rather than informing such action, planning can be a ritualistic exercise disconnected from operations and from transforming knowledge into action. Of course, planning can facilitate developing knowledge and generating action. But it does not invariably do so and often does the opposite.

very wary of judging people just on the basis of how smart they sound, and particularly on their ability to find problems or fault with ideas. These are dangerous people. They are smart enough to stop things from happening, but not action oriented enough to find ways of overcoming the problems they have identified.

We don't reject informal talk, formal presentations, and quantitative analysis. These are often important precursors to intelligent action. It's just that they are not substitutes for action.

In a world of conceptual frameworks, fancy graphics presentations, and, in general, lots of words, there is much too little appreciation for the power, and indeed the necessity, of not just talking and thinking but of doing—and this includes explaining and teaching—as a way of knowing. Rajat

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Si continuamos haciendo las cosas como de costumbre, acabaremos padeciendo una crisis social y ecológica de consecuencias catastróficas

Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Don't open that book any further!" Flora cries, her hands outstretched to snatch it. Too late. The book jumps from Ollie's hands and spins in the air. The pages blur before the motion stops on an open page. All is quiet. Ollie sighs. "Oh good. For a minute, I thought—" His voice is cut off as a pirate leaps out of the pages and points his sword at Maxine's throat.

I'm not going to wait for Father to find Olivina. I'm going to do it myself.

I did it because I was so scared!

Obedience isn't a lack of fear. It's just doing it scared.

The day I am unaware of my privileges and unmoved by my greed is the day something has to change.

There will never be enough knowledge to fill the cracks of Christian maturity without the fruit of selfless service manifested in our lives.

This step is as simple as focusing on the problem at hand, writing down your goals, and then listing action steps and resources needed to accomplish each. (Author's note: I often need a helper to sort this part out. Impartial, strategic thinkers can sometimes see a clear path through what only feels muddy to us. A helping helper to help us think through who can help us and how.

If God is really at the center of things and God's good future is the most certain reality, then the truly realistic course of action is to buck the dominant consequentialist ethic of our age - which says that we should act only if our action will most likely bring about good consequences - and simply, because we are people who embody the virtue of hope, do the right thing.

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