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"Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate."
"Actions lie louder than words."
"The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it."
"If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will."
"In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action."
"Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making."
"Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
"Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action."
"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
"Things do not get better by being left alone."
"Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say."
"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
"Real action is in silent moments."
"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure."
"You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of."
"When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma."
"A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine."
"Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions."
"You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
