Quotes About Action

In any field, when an opportunity arises, one mustn't let it go.

It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

I don't think 'nothing' is a good option.

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

I guess the fearless side is always taking the positive option, with ball or bat. If you feel like you can take someone down, you go for it.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Part of how you grapple with intense opposition is by creating real, organic momentum: by actually doing something for people, and then they rightfully buy into it.

I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.

Around the world, businesses and investors are increasingly taking action to climate-proof their own organizations.

I've always said you get what you organize for.

I would call this sport as an organized street-fight. Think of SFL as a Bollywood movie where you will get great entertainment with some action.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Stuntmen bring a lot to the film industry, especially in action films, but if you start trying to give an Oscar for a stuntman, say he doubled a star, I think that takes away from the star's value.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.