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You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!
— U. G. Krishnamurti
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Source, in full As quoted in A Taste of Death: Thirty Days with U.G. in Gstaad, Switzerland (1995) by Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt precedes this quote with the observation "You are what you do, not what you say you want to do" which has sometimes been misquoted as part of Krishnamurti's statement.
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