Action Quotes
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.
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God is action - let us be like God.
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Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can.
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One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country is by just saying we're not going to buy Chinese foods until they get their system cleaned up. Admittedly it's a difficult system to get under control because an astonishing percentage - maybe 80 percent - of the foods in China are produced in small backyard operations.
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For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.
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Any action is better than no action at all.
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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
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Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.
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I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
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Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.
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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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I am learning aerobics and gymnastics, so I would love to do an action film.
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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
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Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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We were forced into this situation. Unfortunately our friends did not stand by us, ... The action they are taking now should have been taken long ago by all concerned parties.
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I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that.
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There have been things over the years that didn't work. 'Body Of Lies,' directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.'
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Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
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Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.
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The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.
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Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.
