Quotes About Action

Suicide is not the result of passivity; it is the result of an action taken. It requires a great deal of energy and a strong will in addition to a belief in the permanence of the present bad moment and at least a touch of impulsivity.

race. She drives in close and uses her wheel spike to destroy Terencius's wheel.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

007 n. the fictional British secret agent James Bond, or someone based on, inspired by, or reminiscent of him.

We have to be able to criticize what we love, say what we have to say. Cause if you're not trying to make something better then as far as I can tell you are just in the way.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let the world happen to you.

Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.

looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful.

We both jumped for it.

The fact that faith has motivated many people to do good things does not suggest that faith is itself a necessary (or even a good) motivation for goodness.

faith-based initiative

But the truth is, some of my fondest memories are of plain old everyday items that we sold a ton of by presenting nicely on endcaps (displays at the end of aisles)—or on tables out in action alley (the big horizontal aisle running across a store just behind the checkout counters). I guess real merchants are like real fishermen: we have a special place in our memories for a few of the big ones.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

In "A Problem from Hell," I had highlighted the work of Albert Hirschman, the Princeton economist who published the landmark book The Rhetoric of Reaction in 1991. Hirschman's thesis was that those who didn't want to pursue a particular course of action tended to argue that a given policy would be futile ("futility"), that it would likely make matters worse ("perversity"), or that it would imperil some other goal ("jeopardy").

When USUN diplomats committed the cardinal sin of 'admiring the problem,' I would handwrite on their memos, 'If you were Obama, what would you do?' (p. 350).

However, the 1973 War Powers Resolution Act stipulated that, when Congress has not authorized a military operation, the President must report the action to Congress within forty-eight hours and remove US armed forces from 'hostilities' within sixty days (p. 374).

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.