Quotes About Action

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret afterwards + wish undone (or that we know beforehand we will regret after). So it`s no excuse to say, ``I didn`t mean to do it. I was tempted + I couldn`t resist.`` All one can honestly say is, ``I did it. I`m sorry I did it.`` - Reborn

Ninguna definición compleja de lo que es o podrá ser la fotografía atenuará jamás el placer deparado por una foto de un hecho inesperado que capta a mitad de la acción un fotógrafo alerta.

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it - say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken - or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing "we" can do—but who is that "we"?—and nothing "they" can do either—and who are "they"?—then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

And suicide is the third, ultimate use of suffering—conceived of not as an end to suffering, but as the ultimate way of acting on suffering.

There does come a point when you have to acknowledge you're no longer postponing something and you really have made a choice.

No sophisticated sense of what photography is or can be will ever weaken the satisfactions of a picture of an unexpected event seized in mid-action by an alert photographer.

she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your kid is in the ER, there can be no room for thinking. Just the deepest fear imaginable, the kind that gripped like a steel band around her chest.

He doesn't speak of love. It's just something he does. Something he is. Love is the something he does while other folks sit around talking about it.

They just started throwing these canisters. One of them hit me so I lobbed it back." "Nothing at all would have hit you if you'd been minding your business." "And nothing will change if nobody takes action against injustice. Remember when you and Mama took me to hear Dr. King speak? Remember what he said? 'We die when we refuse to stand up for justice.

A lot of things would be lost or undone if people sat around, waiting for a miracle.

Life and death do not wait for legal action. —Daphne du Maurier

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." —Alan Saporta, American musician

He had vowed then to find a life that meant something, rather than waiting around for life to find him.

It isn't money that moves the world," she wrote to Crane in 1966. "It is faith, conviction, ardor, fanaticism in action.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Easier by far, thought Ambassador Spock, to get forgiveness than permission. Humans might have invented that saying, but its applications were universal. The

the brush and flung it across the dressing

Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, receiving a telegram reading /all is discovered: fly/, will snatch a toothbrush and make for the garage. (p. 227 of 300, chapter 19)

For you have sown the wind, and you shall reap the whirlwind