Top 48 Act Quickly Quotes
#1. Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
Al Gore
#2. Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
Adolph Malan
#3. It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#4. speculated that cameras are effective only when they are actively monitored by law enforcement agents, who act quickly upon the information obtained by the cameras.
Julia Angwin
#5. Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#6. The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
Robert Sternberg
#7. For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.
Jennifer Dunn
#8. Fear or anxiety is a normal part of living. It's the body's way of telling us something isn't right. It keeps us from harm's way and prepares us to act quickly in the face of danger.
Abhijit Naskar
#9. Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
Francois Hollande
#10. The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.
Eliot Engel
#11. The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.
Joseph J. Romm
#12. Those who see quickly, will resolve quickly and act quickly,' said Julia.
Jane Austen
#13. I have been accused of being somewhat abrupt in my actions and decisions, but I never act without thought; it is simply that I think more quickly and more intelligently than most people.
Elizabeth Peters
#14. When people come to Yoga, they are perhaps coming to it at the end of a long series of alternatives, and they're looking for something that's going to act very quickly. But Yoga is not a quick answer.
Paul Harvey
#15. Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Andy Grove
#16. The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace
#17. We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.
Louis Bacon
#18. 2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.
Max Lucado
#19. They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
Jack Welch
#20. I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
Paloma Faith
#22. I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
Bill Nighy
#23. I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
Marita Golden
#24. This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
Napoleon Hill
#25. The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
Marianne Williamson
#26. When Christ comes, the members of His Church must look and act like members of His Church are supposed to look and act if we are to be acceptable to Him. We must be doing His work and we must be living his teachings. He must recognize us quickly and easily as truly being his disciples.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#27. Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
Antoni Tapies
#28. Most of what we do to get people ready to act in situations of encounter consists of drilling these lists into them sufficiently deeply so that they will be evoked quickly at the time of the decision.
Herbert Simon
#29. He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
Baruch Spinoza
#30. There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.
Edward Ball
#31. Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes ...
Al Gore
#32. You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.
Jack Nicholson
#33. You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
Robert Sternberg
#34. A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
William Greider
#35. Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared.
Aldo Leopold
#36. Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.
Thomas De Maiziere
#37. If you are indecisive, make decisions quickly and act in accordance with your decisions you will be able to acquire a new habit
Sunday Adelaja
#38. If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#39. It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
Jack Welch
#40. We always knew that we didn't want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide - it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top.
Graham Moore
#41. The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!
David G. Jones
#42. Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#43. How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Hosea Ballou
#44. The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.
George Will
#45. Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
Joshua Foer
#46. I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
Andy Grove
#47. The property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.
Michel De Montaigne
#48. In general, I have found that people who pour their energy into thinking about an approach and insisting that it is too early to act are wrong just as often as people who dive in and work quickly. The overplanners just take longer to be wrong
Ed Catmull
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