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Quotes About Action

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.
~ Scott Adkins
Praise behaviour that you want repeated
~ Dean Smith
How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
~ Jack Canfield
There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
~ Katie Cassidy
My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."
~ Emma Stone
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
~ Publilius Syrus
Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
~ Jessica Sorensen
I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.
~ Tom Ford
The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.
~ Price Pritchett
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
~ Barbara Jordan
When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.
~ Bernadette Peters
Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
~ Billy Boyd
I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.
~ Buck Owens
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them
~ Carl Ally
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
~ Damon Hill
If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!
~ Damon Wayans, Jr.
Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.
~ David Emerald Womeldorff
It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
~ Don Cheadle
If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.
~ Eric Maisel
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future
~ Gloria Steinem
If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.
~ Harold Eugene Edgerton
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
~ Helen Keller
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
~ Jerry Pournelle