When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
— Osho, amazon.com
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Quotes tagged ‘Action’
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
This seems like a good time for a drink, and a cold, calculated speech with sinister overtones. A speech about politics, about order, brotherhood, power... but speeches are for campaigning. Now is the time for action.
— Dan Guterman, Ryan Ridley, Evil Morty Smith (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com
Power doesn't rely on you having it but realizing you do no matter who you are or where you come from the power is within you to change the world.
I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.
To act is to modify the shape of the world.
Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
Don’t confuse movement for action.
In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest n…
And are patriotic men of any part of the Union prepared on such issue thus madly to invite all the consequences of the forfeiture of their constitutional agreements? It is impossible.
There's nothing left but to get drunk
You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.”
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.