Quotes About Action

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.

The first time I watched 'The Magnificent Seven' on TV on a Sunday afternoon, I knew it was going to be a different kind of western.

I think Malta is great for a song. It's got very nice and narrow roads with beaches. So if you personally ask me, I would shoot action there. It can be very exciting since there's water all around and there can be boat chases. Even travel films like 'Before Sunset' can be shot there.

In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill. He must also expect that certain modes of behavior will enable him to attain his ends. A man may have a desire for sunshine, but if he realizes that he can do nothing to achieve it, he does not act on this desire.

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

I think we need a superhero in India that needs a great amount of writing and character behind it. if someone manages to crack it and approaches me, I would love to play a superhero which has a number of series behind it.

I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone... I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a great work: he must be much alone and go into himself and collect himself and hold fast to himself; he must work; he must become something!

Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining

Tous mes adieux sont faits. Tant de départs m'ont lentement formé dès mon enfance. Mais je reviens encor, je recommence, ce franc retour libère mon regard. Ce qui me reste, c'est de le remplir, et ma joie toujours impénitente d'avoir aimé des choses ressemblantes à ces absences qui nous font agir.

Do you see . . . So this is what one ought to be capable of at some point. Not to wait (which is what has been happening until now) for powerful things and good days to turn you into something but to preempt them and to be it yourself already: this is what one ought to be capable of at some point.

Con frecuencia es el nombre de un crimen lo que hace naufragar una vida, y no la acción individual y sin nombre, que quizá no era más que una determinada necesidad de esa vida, la cual podía aceptar aquella acción con inocencia y sin esfuerzo.

You are not too old And it is not too late . . .

It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.

To see around corners is enough (that is not unusual when you are invisible). But to hear around them is too much; it inhibits action.

Ride 'em, cowboy. Give 'em hell and bananas.

while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

power ceases in the instant of repose, it resides in the moment of transition

Whenever a clamor is raised, and idle men get to work, it is highly necessary to examine facts carefully, and without unreasonably suspecting men of falshood, to examine, and enquire attentively, under what impressions they act.