Quotes About Action

Lo que uno más lamenta es lo que alguna vez no tuvo el coraje de hacer

That was the thing about best friends, she supposed. Sometimes they just acted without waiting to be asked.

Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.

neuraimai leapt into the air, flinging itself on glutinous wings toward

He mounted behind me and we started off, while I indulged myself with the image of grabbing that stick and conking him right across his smiling face.

Gripping, nonstop action and one hell of a heroine. [on Eve of Darkness ]

You've got to live in the moment. Do what has to be done right now. Prepare for what will need to be done later.

She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it. A Place in the Country

The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent.

The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent. She meant to savor each turn of her traveling, loving the road and the trees and the houses and the small ugly towns, teasing herself with the notion that she might take it into her head to stop just anywhere and never leave again.

In delay, there lies no plenty

La comida viene de la tierra y no podemos permitir que se quede allí y se pudra; hay que hacer algo con ella.

Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost. Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.

One drop of joy plus courage becomes passion, which enables you to take effective action without thought. One drop of joy plus discipline becomes empathy, the ability to know that your emotions are real and all those around you are real, which then restores your God-consciousness.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

Kelly, there is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

there is magic, but you have to be the magician. you have to make the magic happen.

When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it

The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)

We may say that the patient does not remember anything at all of what he has forgotten and repressed, but rather acts it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; he repeats it, without of course being aware of the fact that he is repeating it.

Just as the ego controls the path to action in regard to the external world, so it controls access to consciousness.

In order to understand a hysterical attack, all one has to do is to look for the situation in which the movements in question formed part of an appropriate and expedient action.