Quotes About Action

In haste, MF.

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

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

action is illusory. Like appointing a committee to study a problem. The more people on the committee, the more preconceptions applied to the problem.

Eylemlerin bir sonu vard?r ama baÅŸlang?c? yoktur; baz?lar? da baÅŸlar ama bitmez. Bu tamamen gözlemcinin nerede durduÄŸuna baÄŸl?d?r.

Jessica wondered what compulsion had brought her to uncover those two things first—the head and the painting. She knew there was something symbolic in the action.

Kaybedince, iyi karar verme yeteneÄŸini de kaybetmiÅŸ olduk. Bugünlerde bir düÅŸman?n üstüne atlar gibi atl?yoruz kararlar?n üstüne...ya da bekleyip bekleyip ki bu da bir anlamda pes etmektir, baÅŸkalar?n?n kararlar?n?n bizi harekete geçirmesine izin veriyoruz. Bu ak?nt?n?n oluÅŸmas?n? saÄŸlayanlar?n bizler olduÄŸunu unuttuk mu?

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

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

Pero no nos lamentemos por la falta de justicia mientras tengamos brazos y seamos libres para usarlos.

Penso na alegria que é estar vivo e me pergunto se chegarei a dar o salto interior até a raiz deste corpo e conhecer a mim mesmo como um dia foi. A raiz está lá. Se algum ato meu conseguirá encontrá-la isso continua emaranhado no futuro. Mas todas as coisas que um homem é capaz de fazer a mim pertencem. Qualquer ato meu poderia fazê-lo.

On se bat quand il le faut, et pas lorsqu'on en a le cœur!

As ideias são mais temíveis quando se tornam atos.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Correct thoughts will generate correct courses of action, which leads to favorable results. Wrong thoughts will lead to wrong courses of action, which brings about bad results.

Preach Christ . . . and if you must, use words." Comforting others puts our pain into perspective.

Frank swam frantically toward the trapped girl!

FRANK and Joe Hardy clutched the grips of their motorcycles and stared in horror at the oncoming car.

Anyway, we were both busy ducking!" Diamond

People under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

It's always questionable to intervene decisively in strange circumstances.

All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could never think of anything through to a reasonable conclusion.

For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.

Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.