Quotes About Action

When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.

It's like—all right, supposing there's a fire. What do you do? You grab everyone and everything you can and you get the hell out of there. You don't agonise about letting the fire win. Staying alive doesn't make you the fire's accomplice.

So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.

Move on, you cutpurse, move on.

THE PRACTICE OF PRESENCE invites us to a conscious relationship with God. Faith, righteous action, ethics, and social justice are all founded upon a state in which the human being remembers God. Yet, the capacity to remember God is related to the ability to be awake, to be here. To act with intention (niyah), with reflection (tafakkur), with self-vigilance (taqwa), and with beneficence (ihsan) presumes a state of conscious presence.

Shvatam, ali i stolica je dio kina." Homeini ga iznena?eno pogleda, niko nikad s njim nije tako razgovarao. Ali je znao i da je Nosrat fotograf te da dvojicu ljudi uvijek moraš poslušati: ku?nog ljekara i fotografa. Zato je ustao i krenuo ka sredini sobe da sjedne na stolicu.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

but at times it seemed that, as Thorpe puts it, "Oppenheimer offered to weep for the world, but not help to change it.

Vanquish enemies at arms . . . Gain mastery of the sciences And varied arts . . . You may do all this, but karma's force Alone prevents what is not destined And compels what is to be.

Palestinian guerrillas, in a bold and coordinated action, created this newest crisis Sunday, and in doing so they accomplished what they set out to do: they thrust back into the world's attention a problem diplomats have tended to shunt aside in hesitant steps towards Middle East peace.

the Gita celebrates a life of action and engagement with the world. As such, it was compatible with Oppenheimer's Ethical Culture upbringing; but there also were important differences. The Gita's notions of karma, destiny and earthly duty would seem to be at odds with the humanitarianism of the Ethical Culture Society.

If an individual is completely isolated, but most important, completely visible, says Foucault, then power functions automatically. "[T]he surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; [ . . .] the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary.

Power is the ability to make things happen. Talk is good, but action is better. Action makes things happen. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Leaders can't afford to let their hearts get in the way. They must always do what needs to be done.", FADE by Kailin Gow

This is something I have to do.", Jack Simple in FADE by Kailin Gow

The Odds Are Zero if You Don't Even Begin. - Kailin Gow

Every death is a burst of fuel I use to stoke the fires that sit inside me. But it's more than anger. It's love too. It's the fact that I care about the people who will die if I don't do this.", FADE by Kailin Gow

The world doesn't stop, even when you've just saved it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Scared people do stupid things.", FADE by Kailin Gow

It isn't every day that you get to save the world.", FADE by Kailin Gow

When has any part of this ever been safe? "Let's just get on with it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Now it's my turn.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Now, now-don't strain that magnificent brain of yours trying to work out my motives-we have a lunatic clank to destroy!

Hadapilah hari ini! Inilah saatnya untuk menuntut hidup yang nyata, Dalam rentang waktu yang pendek ini, kita mendapat kesempatan untuk: Berkembang dengan gembira, bertindak dengan mulia. Menciptakan keindahan yang mempesona, Karena hari kemarin cuma mimpi dan hari esok cuma bayang-bayang. Tapi bila hari ini kita jalani dengan baik, setiap hari kemarin akan menjadi mimpi yang indah. Dan setiap hari esok menjadi bayang-bayang harapan. Jadi manfaatkanlah hari ini sebaik-baiknya.