Action Quotes

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Money, Important, Poverty

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos

Nothing, Thought, Result

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Edward Koch

Foresight, Primitive, Strategist

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Place, Speak, Often

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.
Joe Rogan

Living, Tough, Whole

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Work, Simple, Someone

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Jackie Chan

Family, Different, Two

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton Wilder

Human, Pure, Event

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.
Clive Owen

Clear, Satisfying, Objectives

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
Clive Owen

Different, Scenes

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
Clive Owen

Character, Same, Fighting

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
Clive Owen

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Cyril Connolly

Faith, Lost, Thought

Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters

Good, Bias, Managers

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden

Time, May, Place

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

Cut, Filmmaker, Yell

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
John Cusack

Movies, End, Once

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

Work, Long, Single

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich Schiller

Work, Knowledge, Three

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
Elizabeth Edwards

Forget, Trying, After

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.
John Podhoretz

Decision, Country, Why

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Rita Mae Brown

Successful, Strong, Weak

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
Sylvester Stallone

Good, Movies, Evil

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
Sylvester Stallone

Seen, Bottom, Endeavour

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster

Youth, Genius, Useful

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine

Men, Thought, After

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Evelyn Waugh

Alone, Worth, Actions

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

Future, Alone, Single

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte

Human, Find, Cannot

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte

Human, Find, Cannot

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