Top 1200 Direct Action Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

The way we feel is the direct result of what we think.

I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.

Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

I give media outlets my direct number.

Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.

I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing. If a State licensing agency lays bare its arbitrary action, or if the State law explicitly allows it to act arbitrarily, that is precisely the kind of State action which the Due Process Clause forbids.

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I'm a very direct person just generally.

You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

In Spain, they're never direct, and that frustrates me.

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.

That which is received from without can be compared with knowledge. It leads to believing, which is seldom strong enough to motivate to action. That which is confirmed from within after it is contacted from without, or that which is directly perceived from within (which is my way) can be compared with wisdom. It leads to a knowing, and action goes right along with it.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.

I do have more directorial control over animation, because it's like trial and error: If something doesn't work, you can always go back and change certain things. Whereas in live action, every day is a challenge, and you have to make decisions on an hourly basis. So in live action I have more freedom as a director, but in animation, I have more control over the final product.

Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case we'd go in every couple weeks and look at animatic and sketches. The way they do it - is they'll put it up on a screen and the storyboard artist who worked on that sequence will talk you through it. Kind of like a pitch session. Then they would leave and we would sit there with the directors and say 'Alright - what if we change that? What if we do that?' It's very different from live action.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.