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Quotes About Action

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting
~ Joanna Russ, The Female Man
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
~ F. Sherwood Rowland
If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
~ Abhijit Naskar
The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are.
~ Abhijit Naskar
There's no set future, only the one we make.
~ Pittacus Lore
Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth
~ Risk the risks.
We got places to go, people to meet, and things to blow up!That needs to be cross-stiched on a pillow
~ Ezekiel Carsella
I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.
~ A.A. Bell, Diamond Eyes
If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)
~ Brandon Sanderson
An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.
~ Misha Collins
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
~ Nora Roberts
"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.
~ Cassandra Clare
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
~ Ralph Neas
We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
~ Patrick Ness
The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.
~ Chuck Jones
The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME..." Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"
~ Jeff Olson
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
~ Ai Weiwei
We all have a responsibility to create a just society
~ Bryan Stevenson
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
~ Seth Godin
Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
~ Thomas Sowell