Quotes About Action

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

With 'The Expendables,' you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you're in for the ride with those people.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence in the ability of state government to be on their side, to fight for them, and again - I'll say it again - to get things done.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.