“First I figured out where the sharp action was, where the guys who had a plan were, the guys who grinded. Took the guesswork out of it.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com
“While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is not the critic who counts....The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid sou…”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikisource.org
“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. Of course, if the dream is not followed by action, then it is a bubble; it has merely served to divert the man from doing something.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Consistent action, over and over, not expecting to ever feel like it, and trusting that with every small action you are building and refining the muscle of confidence.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“I think the most frustrated I've been lately is reading a speech that Senator Fulbright made in which he indicated that the country is damned because we are spending so much in Vietnam instead of spending it here to take care of the poor and underprivileged -- this from a man who has never voted for…”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”— Alfred Nobel, amazon.com
“What do you call it when two transgender midgets have sex? Micro trans-action”— Kappa-Spock, reddit.com
“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet refers not only to the general course of life but to individual action. For no sooner do we undertake the least thing than we are pulled hither and yon, and we mix together opposing counsels as though tossed by a st…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com