Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
Do something real, and keep it simple.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
