#wisdom #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Turn negativity into action]] # Action >Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you. >~ [[Dale Carnegie]] ![graphic design poster by palefroi, nanae kawahara, damien tran, elements in a composition, illustrative and abstract, linework, greyscale, charcoal, artwork ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/044ff2fb-5d80-400f-a91d-27cf685b52dd) >Becoming is inventing, willing, self-denying, self-overcoming; no subject but an action, it places things, it is creative, no "causes and effects." >~ [[Nietzsche]] ![a symbol, a copy of a facsimile, never one - to - one, creation is in the entropy. mandala - yin - yang this side the hyperplane, seeing all sides a bit insane, perfect glass diamond a prison prisms light, sheen shine divine a mirror - box plight ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/09ce0942-a700-47c1-b1f0-0de131737c36) ![confucius wearing vr headset, chinese ink painting ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/017a2fff-a95f-4a32-ad8d-93ae241cfc29) >Tsze-kung asked what constituted the superior man. The Master said, “He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.” >~ [[Confucius]] ![“Gandalf in full samurai armour, 1900’s photo”](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/08da95ab-eca0-406d-989b-dc50723464fb) >Before we end, take some Fat Tony wisdom: always do more than you talk. And precede talk with action. For it will always remain that action without talk supersedes talk without action. >~ [[Nassim Taleb]]