Action Quotes

Management has to be where the action is.

Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.

In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical.

The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place

All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad.

The era of empty talk is over. Now is the time for action.

Success doesn't just happen. It starts for those who take action.

Hillary Clinton, all talk. Unfortunately when there is action it's always the wrong decision.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

With Hillary Clinton, it's all talk and no action.

It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

The action is in the interaction.

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

As much as you do get beat-up doing even small action sequences, it's incredibly fun.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

I'm an Action Transvestite.

I like to move. Because that's where the action comes from.

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Action that is clearly right needs no justification.