Cyril L. R. James Quotes

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

It's deeds we need, not words.

Ideas lead to actions.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Ideas are useless unless used.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.