Quotes About Action

I kiss, therefore I do not think.

Reading was not doing… and as old as she was, she was still a doer.

Del resto i libri, come certo saprà, è raro che inducano ad agire. In genere confermano solo quello che, magari inconsapevolmente, si è già deciso di fare. Si ricorre ad un libro per avere conferma delle proprie convinzioni. In altri termini per chiudere un capitolo.

Quit making believe you don't know. You do know. Act on it.

What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.

The less you believe you have to do, the more you achieve what you need to do.

Tú eres responsable de tu acción, pero la otra persona lo es de su interpretación de la misma y de su subsiguiente experiencia.

When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.

When there is a need for heroes and they are so inconsiderate as not to invent themselves, others take up the task for them.

I never answer that question until after I've done it.

he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.

She stood and extended a hand. He glanced at it, his dark gaze rising to her face, then gratefully accepted her offer of assistance. "Follow me," Rey said. She turned and broke into a run, the grateful Finn allowing himself to be guided.

Alan Dean Foster

One of three things would occur when she thumbed it, she knew: They would lift off, the ship would blow up, or nothing at all would happen.

She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away.

Well, he thought, one did what one had to do, so life went. No, one did what one had to do in order to do what one wanted to do - so life really went.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.

Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.

You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.

Most people have learned how to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed in for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time to be judged on their own.

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.