Quotes About Action

Peacefully taking a sword to all those negative, frightening, depressing thoughts that are automatically believed… so that a great, timeless, active day can be created. A day with no time in it unless you want to make some.

What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

10 WAYS TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF Steve Chandler is a life coach

It's now or never, come hold me tight.

A person who does not make a choice makes a choice.

give you in the first place.

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future

The "violence" in the words "time warrior" was intended. For although the work you do can be slow and easy, you must pull out your sword ahead of time to carve out periods of space and silence.

Some people use language, she said, to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do. The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do.

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future. Do it now, so that the future is always wide open.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.

Everything that's truly irrevocable finally has to do with love or freedom, but whether you act in the name of the first or the second, one of them ultimately bows to the other and that's the most irrevocable thing of all.

You better get it while you can You better get it while you can If you wait too long, it'll all be gone And you'll be sorry then It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor And it's the same for a woman or a man From the cradle to the crypt Is a mighty short trip So you better get it while you can

We may also notice … each feeling … is transitory and impermanent. Eventually, through simple observation, our feelings, while no less vivid, will become less urgent, and will cease to have such a firm hold on our emotions and actions. We will be able to see each feeling as it arises without feeling compelled to act on it.

To see doesn't mean to initiate a programme of inaction. … To act or not to act is not the question. The question is whether or not we're awake. (…) [T]o … see what's happening in each moment, and base our actions on what we see, not on what we think.

We might think that by tossing a ball we initiate an action, but this is merely an arbitrary point in a beginningless line of action.

S]elfless action, action done while free of a sense of self. Action in which you don't see yourself as separate from other things.

T]he world as a Whole has no inclination or leaning … The falling of a leaf from a tree, the flow of a stream, the sound of movement and wind – all these are natural, effortless, wondrous – deeply alive. … Unwilled action over time will produce a pattern on the grass. Willed action will not.

Saber qué hacer y tener el valor para hacerlo son dos cosas diferentes.

Para crecer con éxito se necesitan ideas, esfuerzo, acción y compromiso con objetivos a largo plazo.

Algunas de nuestras decisiones más sensatas tienen que ver con lo que decidimos no hacer.