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Quotes About Action

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.
~ Mario Savio
Create the world you want to see.
~ Mark Deklin
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
~ Mark Twain
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
~ Mark Twain
I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!
~ Mark Wahlberg
If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.
~ Marty Nemko
What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
~ Max McKeown
Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.
~ Michael Haneke
People don't want to commit until they have clarity, but clarity comes with movement.
~ Michael Hyatt
Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
~ Michael Josephson
If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?
~ Michael Moore
I believe you've got to make the best out of this life. You don't know how long you're going to be around, so you might as well try and do all the things you want to do.
~ Mido Hamada
It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
~ Naveen Jain
It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.
~ Neal Shusterman
If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
~ Nikki Giovanni
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
~ Norman Jewison
You realize that we only have so much time, and whatever you want to do in life, you need to do it now. There's no time to wait.
~ Paul Iacono
As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
~ Paul Martin
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
~ Peter Drucker
"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.
~ Rachel Maddow
'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
~ Rachel Nichols