Quotes About Action

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

Defense is natural. Defense is a reaction. Offense - you've gotta do the moves; you've gotta get it down pat.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Everything is a reaction.

Any reaction is better than none.

In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

Comedy is basically action but you get the reaction on laughter.

Performing outside of a WWE ring was a very different experience for me. In the ring if you hit someone in the face, you get an immediate reaction. You don't have that when you shoot a movie so you don't know whether or not it's good or bad until it's cut.

Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.