Quotes About Action

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

To think confidently, act confidently... Act the way you want to feel.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.