Quotes About Action

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

If only love can drive out hate, we have to remember that love is a verb. It requires action.

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective remedy is to do things, even though the patient will, at that time, believe that any act is pointless and meaningless.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

To tackle climate change effectively, we need strong federal commitment, as well as local support. In Vermont, we're working to do our part.

I'm doing something called 'Olivia Twisted,' that will start next year. There may be something in between, but right now, that's the one that I'm slated to do next year. That's a very ultra-modern version of 'Oliver Twist,' and it's female-driven. It's an action film, and it's kind of dark and gritty.

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

ölümü hiç düÅŸünmemiÅŸtim, çünkü böyle bir f?rsat olmam??t?, ama ÅŸimdi f?rsat vard? ve bunu düÅŸünmek dururken neden baÅŸka ÅŸeyler yapmal?yd??

The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action. It goes further, indeed, and adds, "Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Nu sunt atât de laÈ™ ca s? îmi fie team? c? fac pe cineva s? sufere atunci când trebuie s-o fac.

È vero che non sei responsabile di quello che sei, ma sei responsabile di quello che fai di ciò che sei.

O homem nada mais é do que o seu projeto; só existe na medida em que se realiza; não é nada além do conjunto de seus atos, nada mais que sua vida. Não existe amor senão aquele que se constrói; não há possibilidade de amor senão a que se manifesta num amor; Um homem compromete-se com sua vida, desenha seu rosto e para além desse rosto, não existe nada.

Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

What we have to learn, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.