Action Quotes
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What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.
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Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.
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I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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I will be monitoring the situation closely and, if I am not satisfied that sufficient progress is being made, I will take tougher action,"
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Even if you do have a punitive system, that doesn't guarantee that it is going to be imposed or would lead to any better action.
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A scene isn't a random stretch of action. It arises for a reason, and it's going somewhere. It has meaning. It has a point: at least one thing that needs to be shown or established at that spot in a story.
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You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent - all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
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Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.
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The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
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When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing 3D cameras, then I see there is no reason to not use those-to not shoot it in 3D. But there are limitations to the 3D cameras in terms of the amount of them, in terms of the size of them, in terms of where you can actually shoot them. There are definitely limitations so you have to weigh the costs. And you have to weigh also what ultimately what creatively you want to get.
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I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
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We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.
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The second group consists of people of action who spend their lives in the public or political sphere. Their goal is fame or honor—recognition. The problem, however, is that they are keener on being recognized, than on actually being good people. What matters is the accolades and not the reason for.
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Some things are better done than described.
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Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
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Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.
