Quotes About Action

To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

Going into live action, the perception I had was that to be a director, you had to be loud, you had be physically fit, wear cool hats, have a beard, and yell, 'Action!' really loud. And I'm none of those things.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development. But we cannot afford to do things sequentially, but parallelly and make sure that we do not repeat our mistakes.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

Yes, I do believe in karma. In my childhood I was a believer.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

Yesterday doesn't count. It is what you do today that counts. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.