Action Quotes
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We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
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We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.
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Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.
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I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
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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.
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Think less. Take action. Be authentic.
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Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.
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They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
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Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
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I'm just grasping everything, getting as much knowledge as I can, and continuing to learn and not being afraid to take challenges and actually take action.
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We'd be looking at what differences there is in the population, building codes. Is it construction or people action? Why did people evacuate in one part and not another? . . .
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A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
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What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
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Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
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Unpredictable action is movement's equivalent to a page-turner in literature. On stage, we have certain options to make our moves appear surprising or even shocking. One choice is to remove transitions. We try to construct motion hunks, hunks of action that could be missed if an audience member blinks.
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We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
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Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
