Quotes About Action

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing moves. It's all sound and smoke, and nobody gets anywhere.

We cannot enjoy power in the priesthood until we learn to act by faith.

a warrior knows what he wants, and he knows how to get it. As a function of his clarity of mind he is a strategist and a tactician. He can evaluate his circumstances accurately and then adapt himself to the "situation on the ground," as we say.

What good is the present if you cannot change the future?

A coincidence was like a matador's red cape; if you spotted one, your instinct told you to do more than stand there and paw at the ground in frustration.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

you trip and lance Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance Child-crazy over tub and gunnel, grasping Your pitchfork like a trident, poised to stab The greasy eel-grass clasping and unclasping The jellied iridescence of the crab.

Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.

The Demon curled its lips back, revealing a double row of needle-sharp teeth. I considered changing my chosen course of action; I considered fainting.

action in an absence of information is wasted effort

A foursome?" said the general. "Now you're talking—especially if there's some action on it.

It's always easier to destroy than to create." - ANY GENERAL, ANY ARMY, ANY AGE.

This means that just when we are comfortable, then we find there is Change. But within us, our ego likes security. Security means constancy in existence, in appearance. Constancy is having. But constancy is not in the world of action. Constancy in the world of action is an illusion. The beingness which we seek cannot be found in appearance. This is because the beingness is in the becoming. The becoming is the essence for it is the pathway toward God.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Keep your voice down!' I warned. 'The house is asleep.' 'Come quick,' he repeated, though in a lower tone. 'And bring gun.' 'Why?

What is one small step I could take to improve my health (or relationships, or career, or any other area)?

What is a tiny step I could make to achieve my goal?

The substance of story is the gap that splits open between what a human being expects to happen when he takes an action and what really does happen; the rift between expectation and result, probability and necessity. To build a scene, we constantly break open these breaches in reality.

The substance of story is the gap that splits open between what a human being expects to happen when he takes an action and what really does happen; the rift between expectation and result, probability and necessity.

How does anyone know from moment to moment what to say or do next until he senses the reaction to what he just did? He doesn't know. Life is always action/reaction. No monologues. No prepared speeches. An improvisation no matter how we mentally rehearse our big moment.

The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.

Sí yo fuera este personaje y en estas circunstancias nuevas, ¿qué haría?". Tras encontrar el camino hasta esa reacción y esa acción, volvemos a salir de ese punto de vista y preguntamos, "¿qué sería lo contrario?

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.