Susan Sontag Quotes

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

Kitten, you need to make a decision. Either we stay here and behave or we leave now and I promise you”—his voice dipped lower and the words fell against my lips—“if we leave, I won’t behave.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

You try to make the decisions that you think are best in realtime.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Think first. Talk less. Start today.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.

Listen carefully to me. Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention...There is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by out intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.