Quotes About Action

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rottin', either write things width reading or do things worth writing.

the Lord helps those who help themselves

You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you

I wonder if we have it all backward. And I wonder how the world might be if we viewed the very reason for our existence as being not about control and security but about surrender. Not to our fears and insecurities but to our sense of what is possible, to the belief that we all have the ability to shape the world as we imagine it, and that our actions reflect this imagined world until it becomes not imagined, but real.

Click here' is not a call to action, because I will only take action with a reason, and clicking is no reason. Remove the 'Click here' from any link, and it will be clearer and more direct. (The only time I ever use 'Click here' is when it is not at all obvious that the target is clickable, which should never really happen.)

It must be done like lightning.

Montagu and Cholmondeley took turns lying in the back and trying to sleep, as if that were possible when being driven at high speed by a myopic Grand Prix driver with no headlights. This was the closest either came to death in action during the war

Never run away," Jock Lewes instructed them. "Because once you start running, you've stopped thinking.

Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.

If we acted, nobody would thank us. But if we did not act, who would? Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done—what others cannot or will not do.

Politicians will have to do the heavy lifting here, because for the most part these are not issues that can be addressed by the Fed or monetary policy.)

So what is to be done? There are no easy answers. We

the new president will push for action on many fronts.

but he was keeping an open mind about whether we needed to act at it. "I'd

If he follows through, the

Janet favored strong action and I suspected that Sarah would, too, along with Dan Tarullo. Betsy

purchases despite his unease.

had been motivated by the need to act quickly, but, on reflection, I decided that they had a point. At

Now the time had come to put my ideas into practice.

We wanted to act before we were forced to do so by a run.

We needed a more comprehensive solution to the crisis,

We did everything we could think of to avoid it.

WE HAD A PLAN; the next step was to sell it.