Quotes About Action

Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

Basic formula: Q (questioning) + A (action) = I (innovation). On the other hand, Q – A = P (philosophy).

if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining.

One of the most important things questioning does is to enable people to think and act in the face of uncertainty. As Steve Quatrano of the Right Question Institute puts it, forming questions helps us "to organize our thinking around18 what we don't know.

It's easier to act your way33 into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

Bugger this. I want a better world.

A barking dog is more useful than a sleeping lion

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

What would it take to make you intervene

Baptism is faith in action.

PRAYER Father, may I be so close to You that I can hear Your musings and be moved to action!

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

You miss 100 of the shots you never take.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.

What matters is action. Not to think about writing, but to write. Not to think about sailing, but to sail. Not to think about loving, but to love.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

empowerment can come by looking for opportunities and taking them when we can.