Browsing Quotes With Tag: action (156)
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To begin to free ourselves, the first thing we need to do is to see ourselves again as historical actors, as people who can make a difference in the course of world events. This is exactly what the militarization of history is trying to take away.
Even if we are at the beginning of the turn of a very long historical cycle, it’s still largely up to us to determine how it’s going to turn out. For instance: the last time we shifted from a bullion economy to one of virtual credit money, at the end of the Axial Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, the immediate shift was experienced largely as a series of great catastrophes. Will it be the same this time around? Presumably a lot depends on how consciously we set out to ensure that it won’t be.Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Speaker: Edmund BurkePosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For fear of becoming dinosaurs we are turned into sheep.
Speaker: Garret KeizerPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Speaker: Ursula Ke Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water
Speaker: Zen proverbPosted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.
Source: Bhagavad GitaPosted: 14 Mar 2010 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance
Speaker: Hunter Stockton ThompsonPosted: 25 Dec 2009 at 9:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom fighters don’t always win, but they are always right.
Speaker: Molly IvinsSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you dread tomorrow, it’s because you don’t know how to build the present, and when you don’t know how to build the present, you can tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it’s a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don’t you see?
So we mustn’t forget any of this, absolutely not. We have to live with the certainty that we’ll get old and that it won’t look nice or to be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it’s now that matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength. Always remember that there’s a retirement home waiting somewhere and so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That’s what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We live each day as if it were merely a rehearsal for the next
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Speaker: JAWAHARLAL NEHRUPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Speaker: ANATOLE FRANCEPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Speaker: RALPH WALDO ENERSONPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
Speaker: HENRI BERGSONPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Speaker: ELBERT HUBBARDPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Speaker: RALPH WALDO EMERSONPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Speaker: Theodore RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!