Quotes About Action

Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

I look for what needs to be done

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.