Quotes About Action

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not. Figure out the equivalent of an escape fire.

If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.

The root of the CDC's behavior was simple: fear. They didn't want to take any action for which they might later be blamed.

human imagination is a poor tool for judging risk. People are really good at responding to the crisis that just happened, as they naturally imagine that whatever just happened is most likely to happen again. They are less good at imagining a crisis before it happens—and taking action to prevent it.

People regretted what they had done, and what they wished they hadn't done, far more than what they had not done and perhaps should have.

When one fails to take action that could have avoided a disaster, one does not accept responsibility for the occurrence of the disaster.

The pain that is experienced when the loss is caused by an act that modified the status quo is significantly greater than the pain that is experienced when the decision led to the retention of the status quo," Danny wrote in a memo to Amos. "When one fails to take action that could have avoided a disaster, one does not accept responsibility for the occurrence of the disaster.

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not.

Fighting wildfires is the most visible thing the USDA does. It's the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most.

Hell is not a place. It's not a noun, child. It's a verb.

Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

The person who believes he is a subject is frank, open-minded, sincerely going ahead, facing the situation freely, and looking for ways to make things work and get things done. The person who believes she is an object is inhibited, pushed, driven, acting by command or intimidation, has a one-track mind, and is always looking for reasons things can't be done or why things can't work.

He combed his milk-white hair and crooned a tune to himself, clipped on his yellow chamois shoulder holster and stepped out into the soft night and his smooth car. As he drove, he considered the stars. It would all be over in a flash.

Oh, be silent!" Elric cried. "For a god, you talk too much. Take the swords—and give me back my wife!

Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Life is not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Small gestures were enough for him. One bullet ended the war.

I regard knowing as an active comprehension of the things known, an action that requires skill. Skilful knowing and doing is performed by subordinating a set of particulars, as clues or tools, to the shaping of a skilful achievement, whether practical or theoretical. We may then be said to become 'subsidiarily aware' of these particulars within our 'focal awareness' of the coherent entity that we achieve.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Nu am f?cut operaÈ›ia suficient de mult timp pentru ca t?ierea puilor s? devin? o rutin?, dar munca a început s?-mi dea senzaÈ›ia unei proceduri mecanice, iar aceast? senzaÈ›ie, poate mai mult decât oricare alta, m-a tulburat: cât de repede te poÈ›i obiÈ™nui cu orice, îndeosebi atunci când cei din jur nu cred nimic despre ceea ce faci.

he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away its shoe.