Quotes About Action

Virtue theory, which is also called aretaic ethics (from the Greek term arete, "virtue"), holds that morality is more than simply doing the right thing. The foundational moral claims made by the virtue theorist concern the moral agent (the person doing the action), not the act that the agent performs.

By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark, or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Taking responsibility for situations, regardless of who caused them, always helps to expedite resolving

Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

Projects are complex non-linear systems and have significant inertia. If you wait to see acute problems before taking action, you will be too late and may make things worse.

Be relentless "The world responds to action, and not much else." — Scott Adams

Many smart people can recognize when there is a problem, but few expend the energy to find a solution, and then summon the courage to do it.

It may be," Doc Hansom the goatfish concluded, "that it is already too late.

To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give yoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning or losing. Just DO.

Just remember it's not the experience that matters—it's what you do with the experience. Nothing

When taking actions, wise people apply multiple models like a doctor's set of diagnostic tests. They use models to rule out some actions and privilege others. Wise people and teams construct a dialogue across models, exploring their overlaps and differences.

Mastery of models improves your ability to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.

People are diverse, we are socially influenced, we are error-prone, we are purposive, and we learn. In addition, people possess agency—we have the capacity to act.

If you feel like you're being called to something, answer it. A dream you don't answer becomes a nightmare.

Holy ppm, Batman!

But that's precisely what you're doing. Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it's because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock." "That's Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a really incredible metaphor, Jean, but I think I could use some help translating it.

You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down.

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!

Let's start wobbling, shall we? said Locke's knees, but this offer was met by a counterproposal from his better judgement to simply freeze up and do nothing, like a man treading water who sees a tall black fin coming straight at him.

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.

So this is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.

I heartily approve in theory, but in practice I believe I shall... absent myself.

Is there an actual plan running around in your head?" wheezed Jean. "Crap sparks until something catches fire.