Quotes About Action

The life that I could still live, I should live and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think

I'd sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn't think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.

That didn't take long," Trysil said, clenching a fist so that the muscles popped out along her arm. "You know the captain. When he wants to leave, we leave.

our deeds have no higher meaning than the context of the moment in which they occur.

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

How we choose to handle situations as people is always a personal choice.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

I think we all need to take personal responsibility, and take action when we see anything wrong around us. I do that, when I see any man harassing any woman. I go and stop that, even if they are actors.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

I would wake up every day, and put on a pair of shoes, never thinking about what it would be like to go without. After seeing people walking the streets of Phoenix, without anything on their feet, I knew I had to do something to help.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!