Action Quotes - Page 73

There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

Attraction is not an option.

You are always in the process of creating. Every moment, every minute, every day. You are a big creation machine and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.

Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

That principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts Become Things!

Place your attention on what you wish to experience.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly, and creating the playroom, and then they'll get stuff that they don't expect, and can't even direct. All the audience wants to believe is that whatever is happening, it is happening for the first time. They want to see the people within the work exchanging dialogue and action in that moment. There are not a lot of actors that can do that.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.