Action Quotes

I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself!

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

Never mistake movement for action

Never confuse motions with action.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.

success is not a matter of circumstance, but of power to meet circumstance.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Embrace yourself, create a plan of action and of course, ponder the impact of your thoughts.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.

This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.