Quotes About Action

Jump and let's build our wings on the way down

I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. I suppose I'll have to do even more violent things, exposing myself so I won't fall down on the job and turn scared again

Where do we go from here? Would books help us? Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

We all do what we do.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know.

If you need to find out the kindling point of paper (451° F), don't call an academic, call the fire department.

Those who don't build must burn

Primul lucru, dupa cum spuneam, e calitatea cunostintelor noastre. Al doilea lucru, strans legat de primul, e ragazul necesar pentru a le digera. Iar al treilea e dreptul de a savarsi fapte intemeiatepe ceaa ce invatam din primele doua.

Where do we go from here? Would books help us?" "Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Not words in books or words you say, but real thoughts, real actions, quick thought, quick action, win the day.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Yapmayanlar, yakmal?d?rlar. Bu tarih kadar ve gençlerin suç iÅŸlemesi kadar eskidir.

Because I wanted to do, I did. Where I wanted to feed, I fed.

To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.' 

You weren't hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things couldn't really be hurt, since things felt nothing, and things don't scream or whimper, as this woman might begin to scream and cry out, there was nothing to tease your conscience later. You were simply cleaning up. Janitorial work, essentially. Everything to its proper place. Quick with the kerosene! Who's got a match!

Live as if you'd drop dead in 10 seconds! - Granger Fahrenheit 451

I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing.

Faith is belief plus unbelief and acting on the belief part.

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159