Clay Shirky Quotes

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Action always beats inaction.

I´m a real believer that just doing a little something is a lot better than doing a lot of nothing.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Any action is better than no action at all.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

It's not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.