Quotes About Action

Write your aspiration inside the cloudlike shape shown in the graphic. Then start filling in the boxes with specific behaviors.

If you can remove the vector of fear, then hope will predominate, and your overall motivation level will be higher, which may move you above the Action Line—and you do the behavior.

When something is tiny, it's easy to do—which means you don't need to rely on the unreliable nature of motivation.

There's nothing wrong with taking bold action. Life and happiness occasionally demand it. But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule. Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

After I (ANCHOR), I will (NEW HABIT).

Simplicity changes behavior.

To find the Trailing Edge, we look at the Anchor under a microscope to see what the end of an action looks like. This is particularly important for Anchors that are rather fuzzy.

People often believe that motivating themselves toward an aspiration will lead to lasting change. So people focus on aspirations. And they focus on motivation. And that combo doesn't produce results.

Yaddeechachasi Vasheekartu Jagadeken Karmana. Paraapavaadashaastreebhyo Gaam Charanteem Nivaarya. If you want to overpower the entire world merely by just one action, then put restraint upon your tongue speaking ill of others.

one can't escape the consequence of an action do whatever one may.]

Action is movement with intelligence.

As the modern saying goes, we should live in the solution, not in the problem.

Focus on relaxing as you hold the stretch, not clenching, but relaxing and opening. This relaxes the brain as well as the body. You must relax the neck and head as well. If you keep the back skin of the neck passive and the tongue soft, there is no tension in the brain. This is silence in action, relaxation in action. As soon as you learn how to relax the tongue and throat, you know how to relax the brain, because there is also a connection between the tongue and the throat and the brain.

To do nothing is an action too, with inevitable consequences, and so that is not a way to escape pain and suffering either.

Sensitivity is not weakness or vulnerability. It is clarity of perception and allow judicious, precise action.

After acting, reflect on what you have done. Has the brain interpreted the action correctly? If the brain does not observe correctly, then there is confusion in action. The duty of the brain is to receive knowledge from the body and then guide the body to further refine the action. Pause and reflect between each movement.

Pausing to reflect on your movement does not mean that you are not reflecting through the movement. There should be constant analysis throughout the action, not just afterward. This leads to true understanding.

When we ask ourselves, "What am I doing?" and "Why am I doing it?" our minds open. This is self-awareness.

When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together.

Literally working is easier than thinking on how, when, where to start.

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.