Top 1200 Action Figure Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

I'm starting to figure it out - figure out my spots, where I should be on the court, where I'm most effective, and how I handle double teams - and it's paying off.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Ranger removed my goggles "Would you like to come home with me?" I stepped away from him. "Thank you for the offer, but no. I'm done with men." Ranger smiled. "Forever?" "Until I figure some things out." "And if you don't figure them out?" "If I can't figure them out on my own, I'll ask you to help me." "Babe, that's like the blind leading the blind.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

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

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.

With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

Action that comes from the feeling of inspiration is action that will produce good results, for you are allowing the Laws of Attraction of the Universe to carry you.

In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

I feel with 'Don 2' I got an opportunity to do a very good action with the kind of pace that I would like an action film to have.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

For whatever reason, I think we have one type of animated movie and it's so wrong. I want to do a drama, I want to do an action, a comedy. In live-action, there are all sorts of movies. There's independent movies, big movies, action movies, funny movies, and for us we have one movie.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I'm really up for the challenge physically to go into sci-fi action, thinking-man's action.

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.

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?