Quotes About Action

Wrapped within all these forces interfering with quitting decisions is that we do not think of sticking with the status quo as an active decision in the same way that we view switching as one. We are much more concerned with errors of commission than errors of omission (failures to act). We're more wary of "causing" a bad outcome by acting than "letting it happen" through inaction.

No matter how far we get from the familiarity of betting at a poker table or in a casino, our decisions are always bets. We routinely decide among alternatives, put resources at risk, assess the likelihood of different outcomes, and consider what it is that we value. Every decision commits us to some course of action that, by definition, eliminates acting on other alternatives. Not placing a bet on something is, itself, a bet.

Aldous Huxley recognized, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Nous sommes une communauté de désirs, non d'action

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

There is, at times, such a lag time that you forget the action which started the reaction. The pollution of the Earth is the cause of the severity of the coming storms

BECOMING A RESONANT LEADER Taking Your Desires from Awareness into Action

Concluded Helga and Tony Noice in one of their academic articles, "One might paraphrase Descartes and say, 'I move, therefore I remember.'

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.

Don't start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started.

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

As long as you're up, get me a Grant's.

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.