Quotes About Action

Joe and I always say that our guide through action is always story and character. We're always driving right at the character beats, or else the action beat doesn't work.

I got an action figure. You know, like G.I. Joe. What I seen of it, they got to put a little gray in the hair.

I personally would have liked to have seen Obama and Joe Biden do much more.

For me to join 'Fast and Furious' was like a childhood dream come true, and and I felt it became a great movie.

I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that's still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

I don't know anything about leadership," Golda replied, typically eschewing theoretical talk. "I can only tell you that I was going to the theater one evening and got on an elevator. Nobody in the elevator bothered to move. So I pressed the button. That's all I can say about leadership.

We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA or character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it

Solomon saith, 'He that considereth the wind, shall not sow, and he that looketh to the clouds, shall not reap.' A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.

It was true that the unexpectedness of the summons had rather taken his breath away. It had come as a laconic cable: Come Naples next boat if you want to marry. Cable reply. Agatha - which made him rub his eyes. But Simeon Jackson was a man of action, and his deep-rooted belief in the romantic waywardness of women had suggested to him that his little girl had been taught by the backwardness of Europe to realize the rock-bottom solidity of the American business man [...}

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

All human actions which are worked out to the end, passing through the un-forseeable contingencies of a "world we never made" follow a similar course: the conscious purpose with which they start is redefined after each unforeseen contingency is suffered; and at the end, in the light of hindsight, we see the truth of what we have been doing.

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to centralized power and impose constitutional constraints on the state. It must also have a state that is strong enough to act when action is required.

Shared mental models—most particularly those that take the form of religion—are critical in facilitating large-scale collective action.

A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong and decisive action.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.