Top 1200 Direct Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think it's very valuable as an actor to throw yourself back into having that direct connection with an audience on-stage and work that muscle. It is a very different type of work and equally fascinating. I mean, I've very much in love with filmmaking because I really love the way you can tell stories with a camera and how music and everything contributes to the story in a very direct way. But I also think it's very valuable to come back to theatre, so if the right script came along I would love to come back to London and do some more.

You can't direct without a good crew.

The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.

And I certainly intend to direct someday.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!

If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

I never thought I would direct a film.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

I'm very direct and I don't sugar coat anything.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

I'd like to direct something at the Public.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

I'm not that menacing. Although I can be quite direct.

I would love to write and direct.

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

I've always been a direct guy.

Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling laws for slot machines and roulette tables haven't changed much since the 1950s, look for casinos to build large video game tournament centers and allow people to bet on the action, similar to betting on college basketball.

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.

[Vladimir] Putin's Russia is only indirectly concerned with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a means of maintaining its sphere of influence. I doubt that Russia will meddle. Moreover, I'm quite sure that Ilham Aliyev won't decide to carry out any serious action - it's not in his interest. He's learned his lesson very well - threaten to take action but never act on such words.

People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions too. But I want to write my real movie about these Guatemalan immigrants, and how they hid under a truck for 300 miles." And that's fine. I'd love to make that film too, but to dismiss everything I did just because it's action seems wrong.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

I'd like to direct more operas.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.

Every actor wants to direct.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

It is a challenge to direct any film.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.