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Letter "I" » inaction
«Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the resultma sangostu akramani--without succumbing to inaction)»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
anticipation, Ave, Hast, inaction, prospect, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs, thereof, translation
«Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.»
«Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.»
Author: Cesar Chavez
(Activist, Labor Organizer)
| About:
Nonviolence
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discussion, inaction, non, not for, patience, sacrifice, the discussion, timid, violence, weak, willingness
«The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction»
«Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
History
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acted, inaction, indifference, mattered, The Silence, The Voice, throughout, triumph
«There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Action
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comfortable, costs, inaction, less than, program, programmed, range, ranged, ranging, risks, The Long, The Range
«The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
cost, inaction, mistake, price
«We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
inaction, lull, lulled, lulling, lulls, occur, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, two-year, underestimate
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