Action Quotes - Page 98

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure

Never underestimate the power of intention.

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Jesus' plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say "you 'might' be my witnesses," or "you 'could' be my witnesses," or even "you 'should' be my witnesses." He said "you 'WILL' be my witnesses.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.