Quotes About Action

Wi?c powsta? narodzie, i niech rozp?ta si? burza!(Nun, Volk, steh auf, und Sturm, brich los!)

We demand for every working man work and bread! For the people, a place to live. No democrat has the right to deny these. We want action! We demand war against the profiteers, peace with the workers! We demand a solution to the Jewish question. We Want all foreign races out of German life, We demand an end to the German parliament. We want a leader above the mob. We demand death sentences for crimes against the people! To the gallows with the profiteers and money-lenders!

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. —W. Edwards Deming

Not everyone forgets to take measures and to do so frequently, but people still fail to create measures that generate the right kind of influence. They do so by measuring the wrong variable.

look vigilantly for one or two actions that create a cascade of change.

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

As Hobbes saw clearly, people don't have to be evil to get into collective action problems. They just have to be human.

Here the rule-utilitarian believes that the only justifiable rules are ones that will promote the greatest happiness, when generally adhered to in a deontic fashion. Thus the rule-utilitarian rejects "deontology" as a theory of moral justification, but accepts deontic constraints as an essential element of moral action.

It's time to set our sights on the marketing funnel, aka, AIDA. AIDA stands for Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. (p.3)

It's time to set our sights on the marketing funnel, aka, AIDA. AIDA stands for Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. (p.3)... There's something inherently out of whack with the traditional marketing funnel and there are better ways to optimize it (p.7).

Justice is the truth in action.

Un acte n'a plus du tout le même caractère, la même valeur ou le même sens, s'il est accompli par un riche ou un pauvre, un célibataire ou un père de six enfants, un vieillard ou une jeune fille

Of all the will toward the ideal in mankind only a small part can manifest itself in public action. All the rest of this force must be content with small and obscure deeds. The sum of these, however, is a thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition. The latter, compared to the former, are like the foam on the waves of a deep ocean.

if one doesn't find a way to do what is necessary, it's easier the next time to find a way not to act. Furthermore, if one can do the necessary and sometimes seemingly mundane things, one has it within himself or herself to persevere when it becomes necessary.

To meet this many-headed Hydra, the president claims he—and he alone—must have the flexibility to define the enemy as he sees fit, and to act against it no matter what form it takes.

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences. Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

This was the way he would choose. Heart pounding, he leaped across the river and headed into the bone-chilling darkness.

You learn more by trying than by watching," Brackenfur replied.

Runningkit yowled.

What have I done?

Toklo!" Lusa shrieked. "Do something! They're going to kill Taqqiq!" We should be so lucky, Toklo thought

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