The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.
Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 107
If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?
Garth Nix
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Cesare Pavese
Tell people what specific action to take.
Jay Abraham
Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.
Jamie Oliver
Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
Herb Kelleher
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.
Lynn Margulis
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
Robert Genn
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
Paul Valery
I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
Noah Emmerich
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
Sri Aurobindo
i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices" Seth Sorson aka " fablehaven " (my son's quote)
Brandon Mull
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
Pitch within yourself.
Tom Seaver
People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.
