Quotes About Action

Once we're ready to begin, begin now.

Apply the one minute rule. Don't postpone anything that could be done in less than a minute

Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself—not what other people value, or expect from me—the more likely I am to stick to my habits.

Besides clarity of values, another kind of clarity supports habit formation: clarity of action. The more specific I am about what action to take, the more likely I am to form a habit. A habit to "be more mindful," for instance, is too vague to be a habit, but "have a moment of gratitude every time I walk into my apartment building" or "take a photo of something interesting every day" are concrete actions that can become habits.

To achieve greater clarity in my actions, I often invoke a "bright-line rule," a useful concept from law. A bright-line rule is a clearly defined rule or standard that eliminates any need for interpretation or decision making.

Now, I see that it's like saving money, you can't save for when you get laid off, after you get laid off; rather, you have to save while you have a job and the money is still coming in. Life is like that, you have to DO while you are able to think of what you want, what you like, what needs it will fill, how it will enhance your life, how it will help you to maintain you, so that you have some reserves when crunch time comes.

L'action, pour certains hommes, est d'autant plus impraticable que le désir est plus fort. La méfiance d'eux-mêmes les embarrasse, la crainte de déplaire les épouvante; d'ailleurs, les affections profondes ressemblent aux honnêtes femmes; elles ont peur d'être découvertes, et passent dans la vie les yeux baissés.

Najbolje stvari u životu pro?u jer prvo govorimo "još je rano, a zatim "suviše je kasno.

L'action, pour certains hommes, est d'autant plus impraticable que le désir est plus fort.

Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.

Well, he said, don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest passions and the most violent satisfactions, and that way one stumbles into all sorts of whims, of follies.

Our problem is that we're sure we have to do something to be free. Strangely enough, the only thing between us and a life without limits is this mistaken idea.

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: "People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. —Henry Ford

Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them.

Asigna una etiqueta «Para resumir un argumento complejo en pocas palabras: no son los motivos perversos los que llevan a una conducta perversa, sino todo lo contrario: la conducta perversa, con el tiempo, genera motivaciones perversas.» Howard S. Becker

Take responsibility for your fate. You still may not succeed, but at least you'll try.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.