Quotes About Action

Pastor Wurmbrand once wrote that there were two kinds of Christians: "those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments."15

vivir «tras la virtud» no significa solo habitar en una sociedad llena de discrepancias a la hora de considerar virtuosa tal creencia o conducta, sino en una que además cuestiona que la virtud exista. En la sociedad de la posvirtud, los individuos están dotados del mayor grado de libertad de pensamiento y acción y la sociedad se convierte en «una colección de desconocidos que persiguen su interés bajo un mínimo de limitaciones».

if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's

I dreamed instead of did. I wished and hoped instead of tried.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Life responds when we risk

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

at AES, the builder and operator of electricity-producing cogeneration plants, CEO Roger Sant implemented a "they busters" campaign with all the necessary buttons, posters, and flyers to help workers stop blaming the elusive "they" who always seem to stifle results. "They" represent all the finger-pointing, denying, ignoring, pretending, and waiting habits that grow up in organizations and keep people from taking charge of their own destinies.

When you know you'll be facing yet another agenda with your name next to an action item, that kind of pressure will drive some very healthy accountable behavior.

To get Above The Line, and out of the blame game, you must climb the Steps To Accountability by adopting See It, Own It, Solve It, Do It attitudes.

Whatever the wording, all our justifications for failure focus on "why it can't be done," rather than on "what else I can do." To

Developing a Culture of Accountability where people take ownership for achieving key organizational results requires a willingness to make the link between where you are and what you have done with where you want to be and what you are going to do to get there.

The message: Sometimes you must be willing to burn all your other ships and grasp the helm of the one under your command. Doing so can stimulate the conviction and create the ownership necessary to get started on a new program of action that will help you rise above your circumstances.

What else can I do to achieve the result?

It's one thing to get feedback, it's quite another to act on it. When it comes to feedback, the real prize is won when you use it to get better results, strengthen relationships, and achieve better outcomes all around.

Getting a team to act on the feedback they receive from one another creates real traction and ensures true progress toward results.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

Thought, when it is cut off from action, is sick. This sickness is sometimes called mythology, mysticism, idealism. Today it is called existentialism.

Experience has taught us that it is not enough to call oneself anti-capitalist if one really means to work to get rid of capitalism. Anyone may term himself anti-capitalist, but this "refusal" does not commit him to anything.

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.