1557 Action Quotes for You to Enjoy

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action. Euzhan Palcy

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Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed. Evan Bayh

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Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate. Evgeny Morozov

Debate Social Media Internet Pressure Collective Action Difficult More Deliberation Never-Ending Participation Makes Jump Contrary Often Heavy Rhetoric Social Internal Even Media Utopian

I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam. F. Gary Gray

Videos Freelance Action Every Cinematic TV Tried Something Directed Direction Put Well Dialogue Doing Go Cameraman Wanted Helicopter

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. Famke Janssen

You Wise Fight Action Films Everybody Typecast Way Say About Percent Varied More Only Casting Had Look Make Around Than Gets Movie Interested Movies Producers Choices Action Films Career

To me, action has to come from the plot. Farhan Akhtar

Me Action Plot Come

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women. Faye Wattleton

Women Doors Action Think Has-Been Cast Generally Opening Terms Been Affirmative Affirmative Action Role The Doors Race Themselves Played Cognizant

The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action. Federica Mogherini

Needs Vision Action Strategy Shared Common

On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it. Felicity Jones

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The objective of politics is always to build scenarios in which persons' horizons can be expanded evermore. Any political action that is aimed at restricting individuals' horizons is, as I see it, a regressive action in relation to the political values that I embrace. Fernando Haddad

Politics Political Values Build Action Relation Embrace Horizons See Objective Restricting Scenarios Individuals Always Any Which Persons Evermore

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known. Fidel Castro

Life Revolution Action Adopted Civilians Could Well Well Known Known Cuban Always Opposed Traditional Any Which Stand Jeopardize

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. Florence Ellinwood Allen

Politics You Women Judge Action Individual Merely Effect Hardly

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. Frances Wright

First Judgment Action Consequences Our Rule Religious Religious Belief Wrong Longer Look Trace Force Make Square Sensations Place Then Deduce Actions Belief Right Imaginations

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all. Francis Alys

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Francis Bacon

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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. Francis Hutcheson

Happiness Best Action Greatest Greatest Happiness Which Numbers

Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly understand why Angela Merkel supported Nicolas Sarkozy because of the action they have taken together, even though I have questioned its results, and because of their shared political sensibility. Francois Hollande

Together Political Will Feelings Whatever Action Presidential Presidential Campaign Though Angela Results Shared Taken Perfectly Supported French Because Understand Leave Campaign Questioned Happened Sensibility Hard Even Why

My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood. Frank Grillo

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My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. Frank Wolf

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath. Gale Anne Hurd

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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment. Garry Disher

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