Action Quotes

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.

Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

It's not enough to be busy.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?

The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Vision with action can change the world.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.