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  • Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

    Fire   House   Action  
    "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
  • There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.

    Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.
  • To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

    Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
  • How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

    Humanity   Might   Pity  
    Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.215
  • True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”
  • Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

    Self   People   Giving  
    50 Cent, Robert Greene (2010). “The 50th Law”, p.6, Profile Books
  • All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

  • As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

  • There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  • To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

    Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press
  • Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

    "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.
  • Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

  • Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.

    Taken   Animal   Average  
    "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, book 4, chapter 12, section 7, p. 161, February, 1936.
  • Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  • In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge

    Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here's something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off, postpone.

    Pain   Fighting   Ideas  
    David J Schwartz (2012). “The Magic Of Thinking Big”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
  • People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

  • Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

  • We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

    Yoga   Body   Action  
  • In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

    Country   Jobs   Support  
  • Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

    Heart   Mean   Acceptance  
  • I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

    Real   Thinking   People  
    Source: to.pbs.org
  • My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.

  • But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

    Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1714, Penguin
  • Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

    "With A Midnight Deadline, The Senate Meets To Resolve Patriot Act Issues". "All Things Considered" with Karen Grigsby Bates, www.npr.org. May 31, 2015.
  • For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

    Children   Book   School  
    Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.
  • First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

  • Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

    "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.
  • Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  • Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

    Action   Sometimes   Form  
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