Actually Doing Something Quotes

• Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

  Chip Heath

  Stories, Next, Kind

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• We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized Muslims from a Mosque in New Jersey because we worked with the Muslim American community to get intelligence and we used the Patriot Act to get other intelligence to make sure we did those cases. This is the difference between actually been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and not just spending your life as one of hundred debating it.

  Chris Christie

  Two, Differences, Community

  Transcript of the fifth Republican top-tier debate 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.cbsnews.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Lying, Ocean, Wrecks

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). "Aforismos", Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat - the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Apples, Google, Roles

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• Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.

  Shakti Gawain

  Running, Lying, Moving

  "Entrevista con Shakti Gawain sobre la transformación local y global". Entrevista en Lotus Guide, lotusguide.com. 6 de junio de 2012.

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• You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meditation, Process, Okay

  Chogyam Trungpa (2017). “The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 10: Work, Sex, Money - Mindfulness in Action - Devotion and Crazy Wisdom - Selected Writings”, p.650, Shambhala Publications

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• Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Lying, Greatness

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• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hunting, Fishing, Healthy

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Achievement, Brain

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• Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

  Howard Rheingold

  Sex, Airplane, Car

  Fuente: medium.com

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