Quotes About Action

The catalyst begins a story's action. Something happens—a crime occurs, a letter arrives, Aunt Mary appears on the doorstep—and from that moment on the story is defined. Until the catalyst kicks off the story, the only information the audience has is where and when the film takes place. But once an event happens, the story suddenly has focus and direction.

The strongest catalysts are specific actions.

It turns the action in a new direction. It raises the central question again and makes us wonder about the answer. It often requires a decision or commitment on the part of the main character. It raises the stakes. It pushes the story into the next act. It takes the audience into a new arena, where a character's actions may be seen with a new focus.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

And I won't stand in a corner anymore. I will step up. I will become part of the world I live in, even when it's scary. Because life is scary, but it still beats the alternative.

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That's a central life question, don't you think? Do you regret the things you did, or the things never done?

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We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.