Quotes About Action

I loved Jackie Chan growing up, watching mostly his Hong Kong film work.

I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.

Dahj kind of sets everything in motion starting Picard on a new mission.

I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

I don't think I am motivated enough to act just for the sake of acting.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

Most of us commit to action only if we feel a certain level of motivation. And we feel motivation only when we feel enough emotional inspiration.

You have to make it happen.

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

No one does anything from a single motive.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a particular action can be evaluated.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

Passion is the motto of all my actions.

Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

el éxito de los políticos no depende de que aprendan sus lecciones sobre historia o política, sino que depende mucho más de que tengan la capacidad de actuar en función de lo que es ampliamente creído por el público y los medios, lo que puede incluir teorías conspirativas o la creencia de que los precios más altos se deben al engaño o a la avaricia.

our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called real men from displaying high emotion, with the exception of anger. John Wayne doesn't cry. By contrast, Achilles, the epitome of manliness in Homer's Iliad, weeps openly and at length over the loss of his friend Patroclus.