Quotes About Action

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative...not even trying...life's short.

Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

You'll get hurt!" But she doesn't listen. She jumps straight out the window. "Wheeee!" she yells as she flies down. She lands on the Frau-Monster, knocking her down, and then bounces into the thorns by the tower as though Frau were a trampoline.

It takes two to tango" isn't even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on his or her own. But the Theory of Mutual Blame arose sometime before Doc was even born. Perhaps it was a takeoff on Freud's seduction theory or the more generic practice of blaming victims for being alive. Its origins were unclear, but no one had ever had to take full responsibility for their own actions since.

What are you going to do? Will you soon begin the siege of the Capital?

L'importance n'est pas ce que l'on fait de l'Homme, mais ce qu'il fait de ce que l'on a fait de lui.

Siempre es demasiado tarde o demasiado temprano para lo que uno quiere hacer.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Meistä on tullut ihmistekoja pikemmin kuin ihmisolentoja. Hidasta, niin pääset pitemmälle kuin voit kuvitellakkaan.

From the day I was born I have always loved action more than words. But now only words are left.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

It was clear that the man was no fool. But what was the use of not being a fool if you acted like this?

You don't know what you've got within you. A person either creates or he destroys. There is no neutrality …

Oh shame, shame! Oh crying shame! How can we? Why do we allow ourselves? What are we doing? The last little room of dirt is waiting. Without windows. So for God's sake make a move, Henderson, put forth effort. You, too, will die of this pestilence. Death will annihilate you and nothing will remain, and there will be nothing left but junk...While something still is -- now! For the sake of all, get out!

omul fie creeaza,fie distruge..neutralitate nu exista..

He looked down through the green transparency to the stony bottom webbed with golden lines. Never still. If his soul could cast a reflection so briljant, and so intensely sweet, he might beg God to make such use of him. But that would be too childish. The actual sphere is not clear like this, but turbulent, angry. A vast human action is going on. Death watches. So if you have some happiness, conceal it. And when your heart is full, keep your mouth shut also.

It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.

You must take your chance on what you are. And you can't sit still. I know this double poser, that if you make a move you may lose but if you sit still you will decay. But what will you lose? You will not invent better than God or nature or turn yourself into the man who lacks no gift or development before you make the move. This is not given to us.

Tako sve ide kao i prije: jedni mnogo misle a ništa ne u?ine, a drugi o?ito ne misle ništa dok sve to rade.