Quotes About Action

Nie ?a?uj, nigdy nie ?a?uj, ?e mog?e? co? zrobi? w ?yciu, a tego nie zrobi?e?. Nie zrobi?e?, bo nie mog?e?.

los que más gritan por la paz, son los primeros en quebrantarla.

A bosszúnál is barbárabb lépés lett volna: elpusztítani valamit, mert nem tudjuk megérteni.

Kris . . . what do I have to do to put a stop to this?

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don't always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final.

It's the thought that counts-quite literally. There's energy in doing and in intention, and it matters. It makes a difference.

Samo zato što mu je sudbina pokazala vodu, nije zna?ilo da je mora piti.

Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl.

And he wanted to march right in there and do it again.

Many centuries after the Buddha, the Chinese Chan (Zen) patriarch Yunmen (c. 860–949) was asked: "What are the teachings of an entire lifetime?" Yunmen replied: "An appropriate statement."6 For Yunmen, what counts is whether your words and deeds are an appropriate response to the situation at hand, not whether they accord with an abstract truth.

First and foremost the Buddha taught a method ("dharma practice") rather than another "-ism." The dharma is not something to believe in but something to do.

Above all, secular Buddhism is something to do, not something to believe i? This pragmatism is evident in many of the classic parables: the poisoned arrow, the city, the raft—as well as in the Buddha's presentation of the four noble truths as a range of tasks to be performed rather than a set of propositions to be affirmed.

If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

Blake's Seven.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

No puedes sólo sentarte y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Simplemente no puedes. Tienes que hacer algo.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder. What if they need the arm or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. Like take someone's hands when a slow song comes on for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.

Es genial que puedas escuchar y ser un paño de lágrimas para alguien, pero ¿y si ese alguien no necesita un paño de lágrimas? ¿Y si necesita los brazos o algo así? No puedes quedarte ahí sentado y poner las vidas de todos los demás por delante de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Sencillamente, no puedes. Tienes que hacer cosas.

I figured that I should just do what I wanted to do. Not think about it. Not say it out loud.

If you're reading these words, you won today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on, fight back, get out, break up, call, ask her or him out, write that book, write that song, listen to the music, take the drive, take the chance, and live. Whatever strategy you choose, you win.