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"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next." »Johann von Goethe
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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action." »Eric Hoffer
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." »Michael Hanson
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." »Joel Barker
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"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?" »Alfred A. Montapert
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery." »Henry Miller
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"Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." »Midge Dector
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"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen
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"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." »Alfred Korzybski
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"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." »Alfred Korzybski
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"There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking." »Theodore Isaac Rubin
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"An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas
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"On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita
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"On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
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"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." »Eric Hoffer
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"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." »Vaclav Havel
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"Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom." »W. M. L. Jay
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"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding." »Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
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"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren
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