They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, there is no time for thought. You do not choose. Like Betto, or Malchus, or Valens, you act, doing either one thing or the other.
Andrew LevkoffTags: fear flight death action act action-over-thought
A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid.
The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery.
The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions.
I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!
Tags: misinterpreted ignorance deep-thoughts humor-inspirational misinformation ignoring-issues two-sides-to-the-story judgmentality richard-feynman misinterpretation action-over-thought incapable-of-interpreted incapable-of-understanding
Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: inspirational freedom living-life action-over-thought
Take too much time, and time will take you.
Lisa KleypasTags: motivational inspirational carpe-diem time mortality mortal inspiring seize-the-day motivating action-over-thought
What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.
Saul BellowTags: america origins action-over-thought
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