Quotes About Action

You're Astonishing How dare you waste it.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it. They cause the events that others have to react to. They make change.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them.

They say the best way to complain is to make things better.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.

Its never too late ...to start heading in the right direction.

The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

there's a difference between telling people what to do and inciting a movement.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds. I can't tell you how to do this; I think the answer is different for everyone. What I can tell you is that in today's economy, doing it is a prerequisite for success. The

A lifeguard doesn't have to spend much time pitching to the drowning person. When you show up with a life buoy, if the drowning person understands what's at stake, you don't have to run ads to get them to hold on to it.

Persistent, consistent, and frequent stories, delivered to an aligned audience, will earn attention, trust, and action. Direct

Quejarse es estúpido. Actúa u olvídalo.» Stefan Sagmeister

In an era of grassroots change, the top of the pyramid is too far away from where the action is to make much of a difference. It

Initiative = Happiness

Marketing is the act of making change happen. Making is insufficient. You haven't made an impact until you've changed someone.

the best time to start was last year. The second best time to start is right now.

For the rest of us, it's not about what you're born with, it's about what you do.

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door.