Quotes About Action

Demasiados eruditos piensan que la investigación es solo una búsqueda cerebral. Si no hacemos nada con el conocimiento que obtenemos, entonces hemos desperdiciado nuestros estudios. Los libros pueden almacenar información mejor que nosotros..., lo que nosotros hacemos, y los libros no pueden, es interpretar. Así que si no se van a extraer conclusiones, bien puedes dejar la información en los textos. -Jasnah Kholin-

Spook stood up as nonchalantly as he could, then fled into the night.

you don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.

He'd had a year to think about what to say. And if he failed, he'd have an eternity to think about what he'd done wrong.

But we don't have to be like that," Hurl continued. "That's what I realized. A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

information is worthless unless we use it to make judgments.

Love must be allowed to flow both ways - if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? either way, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right things be inaction. We fear pain - our own, or that of another.

Tress looked toward Crow. And then, Tress took the singular step that separated her from people in most stories. The act, it might be said, that defined her as a hero. She did something so incredible, I can barley express its majesty. I should consider this more, Tress thought to herself, and not jump to conclusions.

She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the street through the increasingly terrible rain, trying to get some distance between us and the robot. "Unhand me," Sophie muttered, dazed. "I'm not some damsel from your barbarian lands. 

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure — like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button.

DIG Deep—get deliberate, inspired, and going.

It seems that gratitude without practice may be a little like faith without works—it's not alive.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. — BELL HOOKS1

Here's what I found: Men and women who live Wholeheartedly do indeed DIG Deep. They just do it in a different way. When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.

Not caring about our own pain and the pain of others is not working. How much longer are we willing to keep pulling drowning people out of the river one by one, rather than walking to the headwaters of the river to find the source of the pain? What will it take for us to let go of that earned self-righteousness and travel together to the cradle of the pain that is throwing all of us in at such a rate that we couldn't possibly save everyone?

Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have—it's something we choose to practice.

as someone who thought that knowledge was more important than practice, I found these words to be a call to action.

Men and women who live Wholeheartedly do indeed DIG Deep. They just do it in a different way. When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action. Since I made that discovery, I've been DIGging Deep the new way, and it's been pretty amazing.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." (Cribbed from Voltaire.) A twenty-minute walk that I do is better than the four-mile run that I don't do. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. The dinner party of take-out Chinese food is better than the elegant dinner that I never host.

For me, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

Wholeheartedly do indeed DIG Deep. They just do it in a different way. When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.