Action Quotes
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If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.
Seth Godin -
I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people.
Richard Schiff
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
Assata Shakur -
The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
Garrison Wynn -
I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.
Richard Thompson -
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.
Anna Lappe -
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John Lasseter -
Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
Mother Teresa
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What a man does is the real test of what a man is.
William Mathews -
At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.
George Washington -
Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!
Anthony Robbins -
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Virginia Woolf -
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte -
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
George Washington
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It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
Carter Heyward -
We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.
William Patten -
Dear 2600: ...So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out? This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action.
Eric Corley -
As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.
Emile Chartier -
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve -
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking
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Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
William H. Whyte -
I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
Clive Cussler -
We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even the young man over the gang for success because it's a system that's broken, not just the actions of the individual.
Daniel Beaty -
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
Nuala O'Faolain