Quotes About Action

Não se trata de subir, velho ídolo mental desmentido pela história, velha cenoura que já não engana o burro. Não se trata de aperfeiçoar, de decantar, de resgatar, de escolher, de livre-abitrar, de ir do alfa ao ômega. Já se está. Qualquer um já está. O disparo está na pistola; mas é preciso apertar o gatilho, e o dedo está fazendo sinais para fazer parar o ônibus ou qualquer coisa assim.

Parto del principio de que la reflexión debe preceder a la acción

Cada uno en la vida hace lo que puede. Y lo que le toca hacer…

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.

In America any inventor who discovers some new tool that will improve production will always win more social approval and acknowledgement than the traditional type of the intellectual; moreover, anything that is profit, reality or action in the material sense of the word will always be valued more than anything that may derive from a line of aristocratic dignity.

Against psychoanalysis we should oppose the ideal of an ego which does not abdicate, and which intends to remain conscious, autonomous, and sovereign in the face of the nocturnal and subterranean part of his soul and the demonic character of sexuality. This ego does not feel either 'repressed' or psychotically torn apart, but achieves an equilibrium of all his faculties ordered in accordance with a higher significance of living and acting.

Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

Homegirl was 'bout about it. Knew that when Gondolin falls you don't wait around for the balrogs to tap on your door. You make fucking moves. And make moves she did. Papers were assembled, palms were greased, and permissions secured.

Dale un galletazo

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

Doubt is human nature. It's what we do with it that matters.

As the buck darted below the drop-off, she raised her blade and launched herself into the air.

The Doctor snorted. 'Wimp!' He squared his shoulders and turned towards the fire, grinning. 'Race you.' And he was off, running. Jack hesitated, sighed, swore, and ran after him. Levin and Krylek, Catherine and the villagers stared after them in astonishment. Two dark figures running though fire...

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

We can choice to cower at the river's edge, watching as life sails past us, always the bystander, never the participant. We can shade our eyes and fret about all the untold dangers below the surface. We can play and replay all the warnings we've ever heard. Or. Or we can equip ourselves with what we need to survive

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

God's Word, besides telling us something, creates something in us and in all creation. That creative and powerful Word is Christ, whose incarnation is both God's greatest revelation and God's greatest action. In Jesus, God was revealed to us. And also in Jesus, God overcame the powers of evil that had held us in subjection. God's revelation is also God's victory.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

Everyone keeps telling me what I can't do, but they're wrong. The only thing I can't do is nothing.