Top 1200 Decisive Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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.

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

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

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

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.

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.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

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

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

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 comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

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.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

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.

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

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

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

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

I've been on national TV since 1994, and I can communicate in a compelling and decisive way.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

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.

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

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

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.

Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

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

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

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

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.