Quotes About Action

I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. For example, if your emotions are at the highest level of 10, your ability to reason is at a 0. If it's a 9 then your reasoning is a 1. I am not suggesting that emotions don't have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything.

But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action. . . . Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of." —ANGELINA JOLIE1

Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.

The collective or community effort to provide a public good-which is what freely revealed innovations are-has traditionally been explored in the literature on "collective action." However, behaviors seen in extant innovation communities

The difference between a brave man and a coward is not how he feels, but what he does despite those feelings.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.

Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer man tut es. (Actions speak louder than words.)

some ceremony or course of action, always precedes the formulation of the myth, and it is obvious that action must come before knowledge, the unconscious deed before the spoken content.

THE AIM of the extraverted type of hero is action: he is the founder, leader, and liberator whose deeds change the face of the world. The introverted type is the culture-bringer, the redeemer and savior who discovers the inner values, exalting them as knowledge and wisdom, as a law and a faith, a work to be accomplished and an example to be followed.

The important thing is that consciousness as the acting center precedes consciousness as the cognitive center, in the same way as ritual precedes myth, or magic ceremonial and ethical action precede the scientific view of the world and anthropological knowledge.

The center common to conscious action through the will and to conscious knowledge through cognition is, however, the ego.

Sometimes, we have to find out : do we engage ourselves or are we embarked upon. Do we act willingly or are we naively manipulated. If it is our free choice, anyhow, we have to put "skin in the game." ( "A glimpse of the future" )

The focus on problems, whether wicked or tame, as the primary justifiable trigger for taking action in human affairs has limited our ability to frame change as an outcome of intention and purpose.

The state has an "annexationist" character tending toward centralization and the development of a Provider State. We must uphold the principle of subsidiarity. Action should always be taken by the smallest possible unit. starting with the person. What we now have is maximal government of the lowest quality; what we need is minimal government of the highest order.

There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

One good thing about aspiration is that it's quite easy to tell whether or not you have it. If you're not actually taking steps to do something, then you don't really want to do it, no matter what you're telling yourself. Your aspiration is insufficient. Period.

Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we come from!

Don't close eyes and wait for path to choose you. Choose path and follow it

Warriors think with their claws, not their heads.

Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we came from!

Come on, you lazy lump," Berrynose urged him. "You'll never get to be a warrior sitting on your tail all day." No? Lionpaw gritted his teeth. If I looked at you, I'd think that's all warriors do!

The world is so big! What we do matters to us, but there is always something more happening in a different place.

As the patrols assembled, Jaypaw gulped down the rest of his meal and got to his paws. He