Action Quotes - Page 52

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract.

You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

First do it, then say it.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!

Your joy lies within you.