Unconstrained Quotes
On the Preference for Action (Focused and Otherwise) and Change:
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Friedrich Engels
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last. - Piero Ferrucci
Hitherto the philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. - Karl Marx
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. - Proverbs 13:12
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. - William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. - Dame Rose Macaulay
Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mockingbirds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. - Tom Robbins (Skinny Legs and All)
Never confuse movement with action. - Ernest Hemingway
No more solutions! No more words! - Tristan Tzara
The person who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the person who is doing it. - Unknown attribution
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
Continue to spur a running horse. - Yamamoto Tsunetomo [The Book of the Samurai]
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. - Benjamin Franklin
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. - Golda Meir
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. - Mencius (372 - 289 BC)
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. - R. Buckminster Fuller
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