Action Quotes
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Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.
George Washington
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It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).
Christopher Meledandri
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I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
Oswald Chambers
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Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
Brad Warner
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Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'
Jamais Cascio
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Usually I have to leave parties early - just when the action is beginning.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.
Esther Hicks
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Liam Neeson
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Knowledge must come through action.
Sophocles
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We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
David Petraeus
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The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.
Austin Ligon
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Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.
Napoleon Hill
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My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
Anthony Swofford
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I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.
Noah Hathaway
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There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.
Esther Hicks
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Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.
Peter Guber
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The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.
Tom Shadyac
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The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
Piet Mondrian
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When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.
Columbus Short
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We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.
Etheridge Knight
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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
Sun Yat-sen
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He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime.
William S. Burroughs
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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