Action Quotes

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

Every person's every action has an effect.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.