Inaction Quotes - Page 5

• When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

  Paul Gillin

  Mean, Risk, Roi

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• We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, People, Thought Provoking

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• First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.

  Wayne Dyer

  Regret, Risk, Path

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• Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

  Ashley Montagu

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

  Bill Mollison

  Morality, Consciousness, Nonsense

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• Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

  Anthony Albanese

  Government, Issues, Community

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

  John Grant Fuller

  Dark, Years, Pigs

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• One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Regret, Real, Life Is

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humanity, Might, Pity

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.215

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• It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Truth, Science, Errors

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• Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it, for, if we cease to rule others, we are in danger of being ruled ourselves. Nor can you look at inaction from the same point of view as others, unless you are prepared to change your habits and make them like theirs.

  Alcibiades

  Blow, Men, Views

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• 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.

  Tim Ferriss

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action.

  David Miliband

  Country, War, Two Worlds

  David Miliband on Climate Change during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 2006.

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• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  Barack Obama

  Tired, Fundamentals, Global Warming

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

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• True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Prelude

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

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• 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.

  Julia Gillard

  Country, Jobs, Support

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• We should feel an urgency about our environment and what's been done to it by human action and inaction. I wouldn't say there's a resurgence - I think it's been with us all along, and especially since the 1960s and 1970s, but it is true that there's almost a subsection of the bookstore devoted to it now. Personally, I've been addressing these issues in my long and short fiction since the late 1980s - basically since the beginning of my career.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Thinking, Long, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Evil, Temptation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.47

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• Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

  Silius Italicus

  Speak, Danger, Speak The Truth

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• In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second; now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.

  Carl Icahn

  Believe, Moving, Two

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• 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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  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.

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• While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

  Steven Chu

  Running, Risk, Climate

  Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 01, 2013.

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• If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

  Colin Powell

  Arrogant, Arms, Complacency

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• The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it is nondoing. It is not action; it is inaction. And it seems difficult because everybody from the very beginning is told, `Do something; don`t just go on sitting there! Something is always better than nothing.` In the inner world these are not the laws. Nothing is better than everything.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Law, Relaxation

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