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“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”

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Book:Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?”

“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

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Author:Anna Brackett

“American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.”

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Author:Walter B. Pitkin

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”

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Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

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

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

“Example is leadership.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.”

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Book:The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems

Source: The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems

“Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is only one way to learn... It's through action.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.”

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.”

Source: Elective Affinities

“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.”

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Book:Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

Source: Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

“Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.”

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Author:J. C. Ryle

“Skill to do comes of doing.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”

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Author:Benjamin Jowett

“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.”

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Author:Stephen Brookfield

“Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.”

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Author:Milton H. Erickson

“The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.”

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Author:Anita Baker

“When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.”

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Author:Georges Clemenceau

“Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.”

“Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”

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Author:Sophocles

“Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.”

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Book:The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters

Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters

“In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

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Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.”

“Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.”

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Book:On War

Source: On War

“We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.”

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Author:Peter Block