Quotes About Action

The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage.

Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.