Action Quotes - Page 39

• I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Character, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Kindness, Ambition

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

  Jay Baruchel

  Writing, Years, Nine

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.

  Gucci Mane

  Thinking, Decision, Heavy

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• 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.

  Henry James

  Office, Mind, Criticism

  Henry James (1969). “Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes”, p.315, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Desire, Abyss

  "Le Gouffre". Poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1862.

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• Certes, je sortirai quant a'   moi satisfait D'un monde o  u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re"  ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, World

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre'.

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• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Mean, Men

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

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• The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Mind, Important, Our Actions

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• Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

  Idries Shah

  Study, Assumption, Behinds

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.91, Octagon Press Ltd

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• 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.

  John Kremer

  Kindness, Giving, Waiting

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• Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with “Once upon a time

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Data, People, Once Upon A Time

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• Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.

  Steven Furtick

  Love Is, Decision, Feelings

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• Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!

  Steven Moffat

  Adventure, Peter, Boxes

  "Filming begins on Doctor Who Series 9". www.bbc.co.uk. January 14, 2015.

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• Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Running, Memories, Issues

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• I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Genocide, Armenians, Happened

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• Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Kind

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• Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.

  Catherine McAuley

  Instruction, Shows

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• Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

  Aruna Roy

  Taken, Corruption, Transparency

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• Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.

  John Addison

  Neglect, Good Things, Happens

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• My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so — from both the ethical and political points of view — had to be faced in all its gravity.

  Isser Harel

  Country, Mean, Views

  isser harel (1975). “the house on garibaldi street”

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• I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, Men, Optimism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Broken, Done

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Our Actions, Blank, Rhyme

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