“What did you get done this week? It's time to build. Our era is dripping with vigor and drive as it is. It's had its fill of ideas, all it wants is action. This mania for action comes from having nothing to do. I mean inwardly. It's so easy to summon the drive to action and so difficult to find a meaning in it! Hardly anyone understands this nowadays. That's why men of action look like competitors in a bowling alley who know how to knock over ten wooden things with the gestures of a Napoleon. Truly, instead of demanding deeds of one another, we ought to lay the foundations for them; that is my feeling!” ActionBuildMuskAndreessen Author:Robert Musil
“I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all actions proceed from a very personal state of excitement. Where actions have meanings, not just causes. And where a person, to use a trivial word, is happy, and not just nervously tormenting himself.” PeopleLifeBelievePersonsStatesUseMightActionHappinessCausesPerceptionExcitementLife Happiness Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!” MenHas BeensMatterActionNextStepsGraceParticularEqualGrantedCrucialWhat MattersPlatoTheologianCharismaNext StepsWordsworth Author:Robert Musil
“... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.” HumansCharacterActionTalkingGreaterHuman NatureAreasStupidityQuantityWords And Actions Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.” MenMeanLongIdeasSeemsActionTogetherFineUnpredictableUnreliableDealings Book:The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
