Action Quotes
8300 Action quotes by 4093 unique authors
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The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.
— Marion Woodman
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if…
— Georges Clemenceau
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Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the…
— Mira Sorvino
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
— Bess Truman
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It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at…
— Joseph Murphy
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You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you…
— Neville Goddard
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
— David Graeber
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Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
— John Avlon
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But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
— Dan Gable
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A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
— Samuel Fuller
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Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
— Robert McKee
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The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
— Robert McKee
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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
— Allan Massie
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One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who…
— Niles Eldredge
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If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life…
— Rich Mullins
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The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the…
— Henry Charles Carey
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But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't…
— Gina McCarthy
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Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of…
— Carlo M. Cipolla
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The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments, business and civil society…
— Kumi Naidoo
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Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
— Charles Macklin
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It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below…
— Christiana Figueres
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They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed…
— Pope Pius IV
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Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem…
— Burton Rascoe
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