Quotes About Action

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) 'Cause the sonofabitch can't tell time. (Steele)

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.