Action Quotes
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Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.
Bill Crawford
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A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
Bill Clinton
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What holds attention determines action.
William James
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You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.
George Tillman, Jr.
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Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.
Ernest Sosa
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You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
Stephen Covey
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I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.
Alexa Chung
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
William H. Macy
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The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.
Anthony Robbins
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We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.
Satish Kumar
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The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?
Brad Willis
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Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.
Catherine Ponder
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When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley
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We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.
Evan Sayet
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One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
Rowan Williams
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God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
Jerry Bridges
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Reading is good, action is better.
Eric Ries
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you sit down and you look at the policies, and analyze where the administration's going and what they seem to be dedicated to trying to achieve, I think a lot of Americans, myself included, certainly, have major questions about that, or major views that don't think those are the proper courses of action that we ought to be following.
Sean Hannity
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Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.
Evgeny Morozov
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Paul de Man
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
Whoopi Goldberg