The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
I’m just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we’re doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it’s the right thing to do.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
Preparing for action sequences helps me stay fit.
The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what’s needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.
The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
When a sports team is doing well in a city that’s going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of ‘we can get through this.’ And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It’s transported into action.
Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.
True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder.
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don’t like action and excitement, you don’t go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.
I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in ‘Tomb Raider,’ and I was like ‘Wow, it’s so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.’
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Hardworking Americans are making real decisions about how and whether to fill prescriptions and whether to prioritize their health or their finances. The consequences are dire, and Congress must take action.
I’m an athletic actor. I’m known for my action; I’m a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
‘No words – action’ was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe.
The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Action is character.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
Public service has allowed me to put values my parents taught me into action.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.
I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Prior to ‘Action’ and ‘Justice League 1,’ there was no label ‘superhero’ for a superpowered being. It’s really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they’ve agreed to be our champions.
I would love to get into feature films; I’m willing to do an action flick, I’m willing to do a romantic comedy.
Lead by example. Women often wait for permission instead of acting, and I try to encourage bold action.
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children’s Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
We’ve just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it’s too late.
He’s looking for the president’s kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I’m waiting for that action.
I’ll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
When the President makes something a priority, we see action.
Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I’ve been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures.
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again – conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
