Quotes About Action

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Winning or losing elections is not important. What is important is that I have taken the plunge.

If you're not out there taking some risks, if you're just coasting along with your wins, then you're not really trying.

Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,' which taught me to fall properly.

Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.

We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown's father felt that way.

I was a big fan of Grant Fuhr. I was a big Oilers fan growing up. I started out playing goal, but there wasn't enough action. So I decided to play out, and I'm thankful, 'cause goalie is a tough position.

I can think, probably in my head, as a child I thought I always wanted to be soldier. So action music to me is something that I just absolutely love writing. So thankfully, I get to do Michael Bay movies.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.