“We hear our instincts, we just don't listen. This is the single most common root of discomfort: the space between knowing and doing.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“You get subtle nonverbal threats. Sometimes it can be by a look or a gesture that shows they don’t approve of what you’re doing.”— Alexandra Whittaker, rd.com
“Just because you shot Jesse James doesn't mean you are Jesse James.”— Jonathan Banks, Mike Ehrmantraut, amazon.com
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com
“Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Rommel was not always right, but rarely were his errors of self-deception or a refusal to face facts.”— David Fraser, amazon.com
“Temperament may bring a necessary enthusiasm, knowledge may produce a sure, even an uncanny, insight into what should be done, but the victorious master of maneuver is he whose actions are so rapid, sure, and energetic that they set the pace and direct course of the battle.”— David Fraser, amazon.com
“He tells you everything you want to hear, but doesn't show you the things he says. Actions speak louder than words, so if he's just filling you up with charming and charismatic words, without proving what he says is true, it's time to move on.”— Christy Goldstein, yourtango.com
“Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is ba…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”— Michelle Moran, amazon.com
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”— Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, books.google.com