Quotes About Action

you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific... We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change.

A theory is only valuable if it has the ability to predict future outcomes. But history is the record of human action—and no theory can predict human action.

You always have an option. There is always something you can do. You are never without choice.

Uno no viene a un sitio lleno de pollos venenosos si no está seguro de que los vehículos responderán.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

It is—first, last, and always—about how you act.

I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

Comfort makes cowards of us all. And

the difference between creativity and Innovation is the difference between thinking about getting things done in the world and getting things done.

I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

It can become that place where words such as integrity, intention, commitment, vision, and excellence can be used as action steps in the process of producing a worthwhile result. What

Remember, Sarah, any plan is better than no plan.

A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.

If you do, you'll be running an incalculable risk. It will be up to you whether the world begins to live again or stands still forever and a day. Are you really prepared to take that risk?

Hay que contar siempre con lo peor, y luego hay que hacer contra ello todo lo que se pueda.

Usted me considera estúpido, ¿verdad? Tal vez tenga razón. Pero me parece que de alguna manera hay que ser estúpido si se quiere hacer algo. Y a mi, princesa, me interesa más hacer algo que justificarme por ello.

en política las explicaciones siempre llegan demasiado tarde. Nunca debes dar explicaciones ni quejarte. Como mucho, si eres afortunado, lograrás vengarte.

some people wish it would happen, some pepole want it to happen, others make it happen

Why would I think about missing a shot that I haven't taken yet?

Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen!

It was the face of a nonreligious ascetic, capable of enduring hardship and pain beyond what most men would even want to contemplate, a true believer in other people's causes, a curious combination of scholar and man of action, and, most important of all, a dreamer.