Gary Zukav Quotes

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Thought is the seed of action.

Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Intentions count in your actions.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

Ideas lead to actions.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

People are decisions and actions.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.