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"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation. -- Eckhart Tolle
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. -- John Jay Chapman
You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. -- Auberon Herbert
The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. -- Ferdinand Mount
Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that. -- Geoff Davis
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be. -- Lawrence Schiller
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character. -- Kurt Sutter
Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses. -- Brandon Lee
After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested. -- James Hansen
If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it. -- Kim Kardashian
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. -- Caroline Myss
I am not taking legal action against any team-mate. -- Saido Berahino
Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action. -- Susan Oakey-Baker
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens. -- Seth Godin
Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action. -- T.F. Hodge
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action. -- Tony Robbins
Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. -- Roy Bennett
Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue. -- Lauren Mackler
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them. -- Charlotte Bunch
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action. -- David Brooks
I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds. -- Mary Robinson

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