Quotes About Action

load, and enjoy the consequences? What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

Given that you just raised Bill's level of logical certainty to at least a 9 and his emotional certainty to at least a 7, does it make sense for you to take a shot and ask for the order again? After all, if it turns out that Bill has a low action threshold, isn't there a shot that you could slide in under the wire, as the phrase goes, and close him? The answer is no, absolutely not.

The rest of them, however, are going to require a bit more persuading, in the form of running additional loops that address one of the following three areas: Increasing their level of certainty for one or more of the Three Tens Lowering their action threshold Increasing their pain threshold

Practically speaking, the implications of this are staggering. After all, if you can lower a person's action threshold, then you can turn some of the toughest buyers into easy buyers—which is something that we do with great effect in the latter stages of the sale, and that sets up the possibility of being able to close anyone who is closeable.

The first number is a prospect's level of certainty about your product; the second number is their level of certainty about you; the third number is their level of certainty about your company; the fourth number addresses their action threshold; and the fifth number addresses their pain threshold.

Just how you go about doing that turned out to be elegantly simple, albeit with one complication: You have only four seconds to do it. Otherwise, you're toast.

that actually future pace it—forcing them to experience the reality of being in even greater pain at some point down the road if they don't take action now to resolve it. This will ensure that your prospect not only understands the ramifications of not taking action to resolve their pain, but also feels those ramifications in their gut.

I was elected to lead—not to watch the polls.

To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.

GET ON THE TREADMILL!

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you CAN change?

Por un instante pensó en ir a su laboratorio, pero volvió a su primitiva idea y continuó caminando en dirección a su casa. Un buen libro, de los que yo no se utilizaban, para practicar el viejo arte de la lectura.

Companheiros, chegou a hora... Companheiros, vamos pra luta...

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Si yo escucho, olvido; si yo veo, recuerdo; pero si yo hago, comprendo».

La verdad no se dice ¡Se hace! Lo único que se dice es la mentira.

El villano desconoce aquel estrato de la vida en que ésta ejercita solamente actividades suntuarias, supérfluas. Ignora el rebasar y el sobrar de la vitalidad. Vive atenido a lo necesario y lo que hace lo hace por fuerza. Obra siempre empujado; sus acciones son reacciones. No le cabe en la cabeza que alguien se meta en andanzas por lo que no le va ni le viene.

From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.

Los elementos intelectuales no bastan para determinar su orientación; la febledad del carácter depende tanto de la consistencia moral como de aquéllos, o más. Sin algún ingenio, es imposible ascender por los senderos de la virtud; sin alguna virtud son inaccesibles los del ingenio. En la acción van de consumo. La fuerza de las creencias está en no ser puramente racionales; pensamos con el corazón y con la cabeza.

La vida vale por el uso que de ella hacemos, por las obras que realizamos.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Man works for an object. Remove the object and you reduce him to inaction. The most active man in the world will fold his arms from the instant he understands that it is madness to bestir himself, that this work will be the cause of his trouble, that for him it will be the cause of vexations at home and of the pirate's greed abroad. It seems that these thoughts have never entered the minds of those who cry out against the indolence of the Filipinos.