Action Quotes

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.

The only way to achieve your desires and dreams is to ACT ON THEM. The greater you trust in yourself, your beliefs, and your thoughts, the more action you will take.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!

There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.

There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

The key to turning dreams into reality is action.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

Sometimes you have to take the harder course of action.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.

Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment and all gifts are added as you breathe and take inspired action.

I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.

We will take all appropriate actions based on the results of the investigation to ensure that the integrity and values of the SeaWorld organization are upheld.

I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Words are the wings of actions.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.