Mindless Action Quotes

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable’ things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

When I wake up in the morning, I just go.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.