Quotes in Actions

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Support of top management is not sufficient. It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to — that is, what they must do. These obligations can not be delegated. Support is not enough: action is required.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

The researcher hoping to break new ground in the theory of experimental design should involve himself in the design of actual experiments. The investigator who hopes to revolutionize decision theory should observe and take part in the making of important decisions.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.