You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
I’ve wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. ‘I’ve had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I’m making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-’em-up picture.
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
If we collectively set our minds to improving technology of a particular type we can do that, and it takes some collective action, some support for research, or some provision of patent protection, or a mixture of the two, and some focussed energy.
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
It’s time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Although shooting action-packed movies is a physically hard job and I repeat movements over and over, those action scenes alone, regardless of rest of the story, gives visual pleasure to viewers. They also give some satisfaction to me as an actor.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.
The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.
I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that’s still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military.
We can’t sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.
I think it’s a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
I’m not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
When you get to the point where you’re established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it’s awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you’re already believable; people see you in that genre.
Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.
The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or ‘good enough’.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
The real ‘action’ in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
There’s always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don’t just dream.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
I’ve got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I’m a physical person. That’s why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
