Ideas And Action Quotes

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Vision with action can change the world.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The best revenge is the massive success.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

If you think you can't, you're right.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Well done is better than well said.