Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
Emma Goldman

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
Cleveland Abbe

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward de Bono

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward de Bono

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Diane Arbus

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Jackie Chan

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Paul J. Meyer

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli