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Letter "A" » Action
«I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.»
«Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Knowledge,
Will
| Keywords:
apply
«I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes»
«Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
Action,
Planning,
War
| Keywords:
addition, data, fog, infrequently, in addition, lastly, moonshine, planned, plan of action, to a great extent, twilight, uncertainty
«I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Action,
Vision
| Keywords:
actualize, actualized, actualizing, believing, concrete, dreamers, steps, Think Ahead
«I never worry about action, but only about inaction»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Inaction
| Keywords:
action, inaction, worry
«Justice is truth in action.»
«Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.»
«Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.»
«I think that, 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»
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