Quotes About Action

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

You can practice dance, climbing a mountain and action stunts, but to get your timing right you have to have the power of imagination and an alert mind.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

Timing is a big part of stunt work and fighting scenes. It's something you learn in WWE, especially when they are really character-driven fights.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.