Quotes About Action

My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.

I have to just keep being aggressive. Once I see openings I just have to take them and not be passive.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

There are moments I get pretty passive and just have to be aggressive.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

There's a lot of people that will take the path of least resistance not to do something if a leader that they look up to isn't doing, or isn't advocating for it.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

In contemplating what to do with my life, I felt like I had two possible paths: one was to move to New York and work in a design house; the other was to move to Africa and deliver food aid. That's when the idea of the FEED bag came to me. It's for those who want to put their consumer dollars to good use.

There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.

My father is an action director from 35-40 years and I've seen how things work in the industry all my life and I was being patient to get the right opportunities and not rush to take up anything.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.

Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. It's easy to make a Hollywood film, as it goes with a pattern. Our cinema needs a lot of commercial ingredients. That's why I don't do many films.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

It wasn't just any film that Paul had been working on. This was a 'Fast & Furious' movie. Everyone that was involved had been involved for years.

I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.

We will not have peace by afterthought.