Quotes About Action

To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

God's call to faithfulness can sometimes be a summons to be still and wait. There is a creative waiting as well as a creative acting.

An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very long poem.

The U.S. collected information superbly and everywhere, from space to dirt. They tracked all kinds of events and things and people. For long-lead-time matters, like the order of battle for the Chinese fleet, that sufficed. For short-fuse needs, it got much, much more excruciating. Of the mass of data gathered, only a small percentage (50 percent? 10 percent? 5 percent?) ever got analyzed. Only a tiny fraction of that produced the specificity to allow action.

they must create the environment for action. In June 1967 Robert Kennedy said, "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation" (p. 237).

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Forced to think you end up coming to a conclusion.Forced to come to a conclusion you make a decision.And once you made the decision you really acts.

La prima cosa che un bambino impara non è l'atto, ma il gesto dell'atto.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.

Hope is not an acceptable strategy when lives are at stake. Hope is what led to 9/11. - Adrian Carter

the car. Shamron told him to drive in circles

When one is making an omelet it is necessary to break eggs. - Saladin

Walther PPK from the pocket of his overcoat and gave it to Gabriel. "Thank you, Mr. Bond." "It's easy to conceal and packs quite a punch.

Nothing worse doing is without risk. - Saladin

Nothing worth doing this without risk. – Saladin

Nothing worth doing is without risk. - Saladin

fearful. Send no more troops here. We will endeavor to prevent

most people think they will regret foolish actions more than foolish inactions.

in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.