When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
Interpretation
Evaluating the nature of action indicates a lack of genuine commitment to taking action.
This quote by Georges Clemenceau suggests that overthinking or questioning the essence of action may signify a person's hesitation or incapacity to act. A true man of action simply takes initiative rather than getting caught up in theoretical discussions about it.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming procrastination.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.
Talk of mysteries! β Think of our life in nature, β daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, β rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
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