Quotes About Action

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

But the test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he

I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I'll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh and know myself as once I was. The root is there. Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But all things a man can do are mine. Any act of mine may do it. —THE GHOLA SPEAKS ALIA'S COMMENTARY

When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.

Life hasn't happened because they didn't take part in it.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.

You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.

Se desejos fossem peixes, todos nós lançaríamos as redes.

Bir insan? yaÅŸam?n?n bir saatinden mahrum etmekle, onu yaÅŸam?ndan mahrum etmek aras?nda yaln?zca bir ölçek fark? vard?r. Sonuçta ona kar?? ÅŸiddet uygulam??, onun enerjisini tüketmiÅŸ olursunuz.

La verdadera religión debe enseñar que la vida está repleta de alegrías gratas a los ojos de Dios, y que el conocimiento sin acción está vacío. Todos los hombres deben recordar que la enseñanza de una religión solo por medio de reglas y ejemplos ajenos es una completa mixtificación. Una enseñanza justa y correcta se reconoce con facilidad. Se intuye de inmediato, porque despierta la sensación de que algo se conoce desde siempre».

Conozco un esquema profundo que los humanos niegan con la palabra aunque lo afirmen con sus acciones. Dicen que buscan la seguridad y la tranquilidad, condiciones a las que dan el nombre de paz. Incluso mientras hablan, crean semillas de agitación y violencia.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

It is the river, Leto thought. If I turn, I will see the thing that I have done.

Oricare ar fi gradul de exotism atins de civilizaÈ›ie, oricare ar fi dezvolt?rile existenÈ›ei È™i ale societ??ii sau complexitatea interfeÈ›ei om/maÈ™in?, exist? interludii de putere solitar?, în cursul c?rora evoluÈ›ia omenirii È™i viitorul ei depind de acÈ›iunile relativ simple ale anumitor indivizi.