“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
— Andrew S. Grove“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
— Leonardo da Vinci“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
— T. E. Lawrence“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart“Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt shorter: Paralysis.”
— Winston Churchill“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price—and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price—is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.”
— Winston Churchill“In the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.”
— Andrew S. Grove“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“This is a time for action—not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt“The bird that sits, is easily shot.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Our spontaneous action is always the best.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“The first rule of war is to concentrate superior strength for decisive action and to avoid division of force or engaging in detail.”
— Winston Churchill“The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
— Amelia Earhart“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
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