Quotes About Action

Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.

Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say you *might* be my witnesses, or you *could* be my witnesses, or even you *should* be my witnesses. He said you *will* be my witnesses.

Action is character. What a person does is what he is, not what he says.

The writer's job is to write the screenplay and keep the reader turning pages, not to determine how a scene or sequence should be filmed. You don't have to tell the director and cinematographer and film editor how to do their jobs. Your job is to write the screenplay, to give them enough visual information so they can bring those words on the page into life, in full 'sound and fury,' revealing strong visual and dramatic action, with clarity, insight, and emotion.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, you have no action; without action, you have no character; without character, you have no story; and without story, you have no screenplay.

Life consists in action,' Aristotle said, 'and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.' The same with Hamlet, or Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, or Neo in The Matrix: characters who have overcome their doubts and fears, then pushed them aside and acted. It is this action that elevates them into the realm of 'heroic figures.

you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to do. [p. 10]

Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]

You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you.

Do not wait until life meets some inner criteria to seize the day, she whispered. I have learned that sometimes tomorrow never comes.

Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself.

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time. As Mr. Kazin told me: 'You don't write to support yourself; you work to support your writing.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

A real self, as we know, is a rare thing. The direct speech of a real self is rarer still. Where a real self exists it reveals itself, as a rule, only in the quality of the person's presence, or in actions

Every unrighteous action alienates humankind further from the ground, making it even more difficult to cultivate food and so experience divinely intended rest.

Rich people, as we've said earlier, take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work.

Because we are creatures of habit, we need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. The biggest mistake most people

Tienes que ser la persona adecuada en el lugar adecuado en el momento justo».

sí puedes cambiar los frutos del mañana. Pero

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

poor people never take action and therefore always lose. Rich people see an opportunity, jump on it, and get even richer. As for poor people? They're still "preparing"!

Write down a problem you are having in your life. Then list ten specific actions you can take to resolve or at least improve this situation. This will move you from problem thinking into solution thinking. First, there's a good chance you'll solve the problem. Second, you'll feel a heck of a lot better.

PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: El dinero es un resultado, la riqueza es un resultado, la salud es un resultado, la enfermedad es un resultado, tu peso es un resultado. Vivimos en un mundo de causas y efectos.