Quotes About Action

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge

God says to us "Some things won't get done unless you do them.

As former CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote, covert action "is a hard business of agonizing choices.

Yeah, he said, you'll know he's the one because when he says he'll do anything for you, he means it. Don't you fall for the big hearts and flowers, acting like it's the movies. Bunch of bullshit, he said. Pardon me. You want the guy who'll get your medicine in the middle of the night, even in a blizzard, even after twenty years. You want the guy who shows you every day, shoveling the walk, carrying your groceries, shows you how much he loves you. It's not about talking the talk, Eva.

Conflict, in the Bridgewater culture, is conducted in the service of finding "what is true and what to do about it.

Solvay Business School Professor Paul Verdin and I developed a perspective that frames an organization's strategy as a hypothesis rather than a plan.62 Like all hypotheses, it starts with situation assessment and analysis –strategy's classic tools. Also, like all hypotheses, it must be tested through action. When strategy is seen as a hypothesis to be continually tested, encounters with customers provide valuable data of ongoing interest to senior executives.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." —Sydney Harris1

Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.

inner disciplines affect how we see others); looking outward with our eyes (how we see others affects how we treat others); and finally, by using what we've learned practically, with our hands.

Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.

For Fred, this practical outworking of loving our neighbor-using not only our heart and eyes but our hands-is what defined a hero: 'To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it, and rather than view it with despair they view it with hope-that to me is such an enormous gift in this life. Those are my heroes.

happen? That the biggest con of all is telling yourself that it will? How could he tell Craw that saying you were going to do something and then making it happen was, for Jeremy, as unlikely as Craw settling down with a nice girl and breeding like bunnies?

the SUV didn't just meet a tree. The subject drove it into a tree, running from a grizzly bear, because the subject was going to take out a half-grown cub with an AK-47 semiauto.

Yeah, but I didn't like him and you still did it!

but really, I just wanted to write shit-go-boom, then-there's-pecs-and-peen! This one's fantasy. Eat popcorn and enjoy.

I aim at the middle one first. I squeeze the trigger. And the metal weapon does what it does best. It jams.

If you don't do something because it might get wrong, you'll never do anything.

What I'm trying to say is, you can't wait for somebody else to decide whether you get another chance. What if nobody ever does?

give her one silent gift from a mother she didn't know she had—it would be this: the realization that we have to be a part of the world in which we live. We don't scurry away when we're in trouble, or when someone else is. We don't run and hide.

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

compassion can be felt in the gut; mercy needs to be enacted with the body.

During Lent you have the opportunity to think about your life alongside the life of Jesus, inviting inward transformation and then outward action.

The best way of evangelizing is not to tell the potential convert, "Here's what's wrong with your tradition." The best way to evangelize is to show that potential convert, "Here's what's right with my tradition; here's how it prompts toward action; here's how it consoles.

Luke gently criticizes people who pray, and pray, but who fail to open the gate, or to see the need at their doorstep.