Quotes About Action

that Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.

Jump right in, or wade in slowly. Advantage to one, it's over quickly. Advantage to the other, it isn't.

In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very 'gifted' improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.(p.115)

In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.

They suggest that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act — and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment — are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

This is the real lesson of Blink: It is not enough simply to explore the hidden recesses of our unconscious. Once we know about how the mind works — and about the strengths and weaknesses of human judgment — it is our responsibility to act.

In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.

Hell, yeah, we're going to ride," the cussing preacher said and addressed his board. "Find you any kind of crack you can to hide in if you're scared, but I'm walking downtown after this meeting and getting on the bus. I'm not going to look back to see who's following me.

From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment.

When people are in a group, in other words, responsibility for acting is diffused.

Reaching the consumer with the message is not the hard part of direct marketing. What is difficult is getting consumers to stop, read the advertisement, remember it, and then act on it.

And why? Because

In the end, tipping points are a reaffirmation of a potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you: It may seem like an immovable, implacable place; it is not. With the slightest push, in just the right place, it can be tipped.

I'd rather have somebody who is real stupid but did something—even if it's wrong he did something—than have somebody who'd vacillate and do nothing." That's what LeMay values.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

By any means necessary.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.

There is a universal truth that all successful people know: Nothing is ever done until you take action.

Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.