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 Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:42 pm
#1 ACTION I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. Confucius (551-479 BC)
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:43 pm
#2
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Terence (c.185-159 BC)
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:44 pm
#3
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!
(Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!)
Horace (65-8 BC)
Odes, book I, 23 BC
ode xi, last line
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:45 pm
#4
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
The Notebooks, 1508-1518
Volume 1, Chapter 2
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:46 pm
#5
Action and passion is as absent in the present age as peril is absent from swimming in shallow waters....
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and The Present Age, 1846
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:47 pm
#6
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
The Crown of Wild Olive, 1887
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:48 pm
#7
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Technical Education, 1877
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:49 pm
#8
The sovereign source of melancholy is repletion. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
William James (1842-1910)
The Will to Believe, 1896
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:50 pm
#9
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Human, All Too Human, 1878, 74
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:51 pm
#10
No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important, For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-194 cool
Selections From Gandhi, 1948
Chapter 16 "The Life Of The Satyagrahi"
compiled by N.K. Bose
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:52 pm
#11
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide (1869-1951)
The Counterfeiters, 1925
Part 3, Chapter 16
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:53 pm
#12
The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972)
Letter to James Joyce
07-08 June 1920
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:54 pm
#13
I become aware of the old Buddhist axiom of not striving. It seems clear that if I pour my energy into creating beauty and euphoria, this simultaneously creates an empty hole which I will subsequently experience as the opposite. The answer is equanimity -- let things be as they are.
Myron J. Stolaroff (b.1920)
Thanatos to Eros, 1994
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:55 pm
#14
ADAPTATION
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. Saint Ambrose (339-397) Advise to Saint Augustine
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:56 pm
#15
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John Dewey (1859-1953)
PS My mothers grand father
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