Action Quotes
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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
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I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
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If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
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An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.
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It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.
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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
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Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption the cross, even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
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You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
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Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.
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If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
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I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.
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Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
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The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
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All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.
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I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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The stronger an agent’s motivation to A is, in comparison to the agent’s motivation for alternative courses of action, the more likely the agent is to A, other things being equal.
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The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.
