Action Quotes · Page 135

I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

— Pedro Almodovar

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

— Thomas Carlyle

Get out of your dreamworld and develop a backbone not a wishbone.

— Anonymous

A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby

— Dennis Richardson

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise

— Traci Bingham

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

— Bruce Lee

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

— Steve Fisher

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

— William Howard Taft

“Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor…

— Ian Fleming

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps…

— Shane Black

You don't have a lot of players that, even in history, could start the action, do all the passes and also be…

— Kingsley Coman

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused…

— Taslima Nasrin

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you…

— Guy Pearce

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

— Hannah Arendt

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but…

— Democritus

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going…

— Yvon Chouinard

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as…

— Barbara Bergmann

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic…

— Carlos Fuentes

My hats off to anybody filming action, because you get beat up. If I'm going to get the crap kicked out of…

— John Cena

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we…

— Howard Gardner

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience…

— Donnie Yen

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no…

— Diamond Dallas Page

There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before…

— Kenny Smith

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

— Steve Jobs

“You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.”

— Orrin Woodward

If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.

— Anonymous

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

— Eric Hoffer

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

— Lord Chesterfield

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.

— Nate Holland

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Thoughts are roots; Words are leaves; Actions are fruits! Every success tree has all working normally!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Be not an insect of indifference, be the godzilla of zeal and deeds.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

— Tom Peters

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

— Eartha Kitt

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“I stomp back to my room. Queen Titania is not marrying Prince Holden.”

— Tricia Copeland

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

— Noah Hathaway

Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions.

— Tony Jeary