Action Quotes
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Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
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equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.
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I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I understand the constraints of the movie, the locations of where we're shooting, the abilities of the actors, and where we want to go with the characters.
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To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.
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The American Politician has developed into the gutless master of procrastination with a maximum of non-committal statement and the barest minimum of action. This moral vacuum is exceeded only by the apathetic public who allows him to stay in power.
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When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.
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I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.
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When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.
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When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."
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Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.
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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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The only cure for grief is action.
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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
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Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
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Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.
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We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
