The shortest answer is doing.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....

it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The secret of getting things done is to act.

The Way to do is to be.

The safe plan is, always simply to do the task that lies nearest us;

Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.

Statt Stunden, Tage oder Jahre darauf zu verschwenden, den optimalen nächsten Schritt auszuklügeln, TUN Sie einfach was.

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.