Top 1200 Decisive Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

The thing about action films is that they are high on drama in terms of action sequences, have songs and other things, but content is secondary.

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts.

In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

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

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to make films with a lot of action. They all know that I'm very good at action scenes, but I tend to not use many, so they're all frustrated with me. But I do that intentionally. Yes, if I do a movie with a bunch of action, it's going to be a lot more successful than the types of movies I'm making right now. The producers often say, "Instead of using all these philosophical phrases, why don't you change this into an action scene?" But I intend to continue to make these movies.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

I'm not a phenomenon; I'm just trying to be decisive for my teammates. There are a lot of talented young people in football.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

I think as an action director; it comes kind of naturally to me to a certain extent, because I've done so much action myself - as my MRIs would suggest!

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

In the battle between planning and action, action wins.

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

I learned how important it is to lead and be decisive and to, in a way, empower other people to do their best.

I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been trying to contribute. I still write things outside of architecture - not really fiction, but not nonfiction. I like dialogue as a form, because the text is only the trace of an action. The consequential information is carried in the action you choose to put on that text.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

I wanted to make myself the most valuable player by making my presence felt at the decisive moments.

I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

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

We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of the season.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

There are always crucial, decisive players in every side who make the difference and do not necessarily depend on others.