Action quotes

Action

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

- Hortense Calisher

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

925.

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

- Paglia, Camille

926.

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

- Douglas, Mack R.

927.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Einstein, Albert

928.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

- Einstein, Albert

929.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

- Garfield, Charles A.

930.

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

- Waitley, Denis

931.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

- Camus, Albert

932.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

- Cooper, James F.

933.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

934.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Hill, Napoleon

935.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

- Quinet, Edgar

936.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

937.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

938.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

- Frank Tibolt

939.

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

- Einstein, Albert

940.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

- Stedman, Captain J. G.