Action Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

— Midge Decter

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

— Mary Baker Eddy

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Our actions are what sets things in motion, but we have to live with that.

— Elena Gilbert

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

— Eric Hoffer

Every action is the result of an idea...

— Milana May

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as…

— Claude Bernard

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

— John Zerzan

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

— Robert Delaunay

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.”

— Daniel Kahneman