Quotes About Action

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it.

Live your love is the right answer. I hold to that line attributed to Francis of Assisi, who told his followers, "Go into the world to preach the gospel and, if necessary, use words." We need less to be told how to live our lives and more to see people living inspirational lives.

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa ... whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames ... or not.

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Cast down your bucket where you are

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men.

But Pelagia didn't wait for the second circle: with a sickening squeal, she thrust the two needles straight through the cloth of the bag into the murderer's only eye. At the final moment she suddenly felt frightened: What if she hadn't remembered which eye was the natural one? However, to judge

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

On ne reste pas parce qu'on aime certaines personnes; on s'en va parce qu'on en déteste d'autres. Il n'y a que le moche qui vous fasse agir. On est lâches.

Marriage, rightly concluded, is an incarnation of love--poetry expressed in action--a sweet embellishment of an otherwise prosaic existence.

All the financial knowledge in the world will not benefit clients if they are unable or unwilling psychologically to act on that knowledge.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

the people closest to problems were usually in the best position to solve them.

Bezos liked to say that "good intentions don't work, but mechanisms do.

There are two ways of building a business. Many times, you aim, aim, aim, and then shoot," he said, according to three executives who were there. "Or, you shoot, shoot, shoot, and then aim a little bit. That is what you want to do here. Don't spend a lot of time on analysis and precision. Keep trying stuff.

obsessão pelo cliente; simplicidade; propensão à ação; propriedade; e padrões elevados de talento.

The risk was greater, far greater, when you let your target or enemies work with impunity. Remove

The butterfly effect. Change one thing, you change everything.

A dozen thoughts hit me all at once. The biggest was a one-word command: RUN! I had watched the horror movies, the ones where the mentally malnourished airhead goes into the house alone, sneaking around like, well, like me, and then ends up with an ax between the eyes. From the safety of my seat in the cineplex, I had scoffed at their idiocy and now, here I was, in Bat Lady's lair, and someone else was here, in the basement. Why

What should she say? Nothing. Not right now anyway. Think it through. Time was a-wasting.