Action Quotes

• “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” ~ Bruce Lee
• “There’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.” ~ Shia LaBeouf
• “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
• “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” ~ Voltaire
• “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?” ~ Peter Block
• “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
• “I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn’t sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time — but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was “productive.” Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.” ~ Gretchen Rubin
• “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” ~ Tom Peters
• “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” ~ Seth Godin
• "There is no substitute for hard work.” ~ Thomas Edison
• “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” ~ John W. Gardner
• “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” ~ Tony Robbins
• “Never mistake motion for action.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
• “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” ~ Delmore Schwartz
• “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” ~ Donald Trump
• “Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.” ~ Henry Ford
• “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter
• “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
• “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ~ Coco Chanel
• “You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it ‘done.’” ~ David Allen
• “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” ~ Preston Ni