Quotes About Action

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy.

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Geschichte treiben heißt Brücken zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart schlagen und beide Ufer beobachten und an beiden tätig werden.

Pienso, llego a una conclusión, la conclusión cristaliza en una decisión, y entonces me doy cuenta de que la acción es algo aparte, algo que puede seguir a la decisión, pero no necesariamente

Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Penso, chego a um resultado, mantenho o resultado preso a uma decisão e faço a experiência de que a ação é uma coisa por si mesma, que pode mas não tem de seguir a decisão. Com bastante frequência no decorrer da minha vida fiz o que não tinha decidido e deixei de fazer o que tinha decidido.

Ich meine nicht, daß Denken und Entscheiden keinen Einfluß auf das Handeln hätten. Aber das Handeln vollzieht nicht einfach, was davor gedacht und entschieden wurde. Es hat seine eigene Quelle und ist auf ebenso eigenständige Weise mein Handeln, wie mein Denken ist und mein Entscheiden mein Entscheiden.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Almost all philosophers, in their ethical systems, first lay down a false doctrine, and then argue that wickedness consists in acting in a manner that proves it false, which would be impossible if the doctrine were true.

The extent to which beliefs are based upon evidence is very much less than believers suppose. Take the kind of action which is most nearly rational: the investment of money by a rich City man. You will often find that his view (say) on the question whether the French franc will go up or down depends upon his political sympathies, and yet is so strongly held that he is prepared to risk money on it.

True forethought only arises when a man does something towards which no impulse urges him, because his reason tells him that he will profit by it at some future date.

people, to whom the Eternal is represented by the Monthlies, to which they rise with difficulty from the daily papers, strike me as all puppets, blind embodiments of the forces of nature, never achieving the liberation that comes to man when he ceases to desire and learns at last to contemplate. Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: "Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a laborer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.

The mind which has become accustomed to the freedom and impartiality of philosophic contemplation will preserve something of the same freedom and impartiality in the world of action and emotion.

The implication of the free-will doctrine are not realized by those who hold it. We say "why did you do it?" and expect the answer to mention beliefs and desires which caused action. When a man does not himself know why he acted as he did, we may search his unconscious for a cause, but it never occurs to us that there may have been no cause.

To a great extent fatigue in such cases is due to worry, and worry could be prevented by a better philosophy of life and a little more mental discipline. Most men and women are very deficient in control over their thoughts. I mean by this that they cannot cease to think about worrying topics at times when no action can be taken in regard to them.

Sin duda el ideal es una cierta rigidez de acción, más una cierta flexibilidad de pensamiento, pero esto es difícil de lograr en la práctica excepto durante los breves períodos de transición. Y parece probable que, si las viejas ortodoxias decaen, surjan nuevos códigos rígidos según las necesidades del conflicto.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for it's own sake.

He shrugged and dusted dustless hands, one against the other. He

Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.