Quotes About Action

As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.

It's rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold'em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That's one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.

I certainly admire people who do things.

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who

The rules are clean: they are right, I ween But where do they make the thing?

People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.

You will have to make decisions far worse. You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all.

what matters isn't whether or not you're frightened, but how you behave.

We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn't matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.' 'Now?

he reminded himself as he turned another corner — glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there — the deed was the thing, not the praise.

It is the nature of things that many people are more interested in affixing blame than fixing the problem.

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I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

All of life is like this. You may attempt over and over again to accomplish a goal, but if you do so from an intellectual standpoint only, you'll rarely be successful.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.

Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.

Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.