A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.”
“Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.”
“Action compounds. Hesitation depreciates.”
Source: The Myth of the Safe Path: How Playing Small Costs More Than Risk
“Action controls the direction of success actualization.”
“Action creates/a taste/for itself.”
Source: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”
“Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.”
“Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Action does not get one to the destination, action IS the destination.”
Source: The Codex Bellum III: The Observer Effect
“Action done totally brings relaxation; relaxation done totally brings more action.”
Source: When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
“Action-Driven Vision vs. Fear-Driven Action
Fear asks, "What if I fail?"
Vision asks, "What if I succeed?"
Which one is driving you right now?”
“Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.”
“Action expresses priorities.”
“Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.”
“Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.”
“Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.”
“Action first, mistakes second, lessons third.”
“Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness”
“Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.”
“Action gives a decision power and finality.”
Source: The Reason
“Action gives traction to the law of attraction.”
Source: The Law of Attraction: Is It for Christians?: Uncovering Kingdom Secrets Behind The Secret
“Action had to be taken in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, but I am very concerned about the current administration's rhetoric and apparent zeal to expand military action to other places. I'm afraid that terrorism is being used as an excuse, not only for possible military action in such places as Iraq, Iran, and the Philippines, but also for exorbitant increases in defense spending that have nothing to do with terrorism.”
“Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.”
Source: Past and Present
“Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
“Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.”
“Action have consequence, live with it!!!”
“Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.”
“Action implies act now.”
“Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.”
Source: On War
“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Action is a done deal.”
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.”
Source: Power of the Plus Factor
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
Source: Power of the Plus Factor
“Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Action is a life-giving breath; inaction is a slow death.”
“Action is a mapping of value onto the material expression of state space and thought is a mapping of value onto the structure of the creature.”
“Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.”
“Action is a powerful thing. When you smile through your sadness, it can completely change your outlook. Try it! Smile :) Now hold onto that and keep choosing to smile!”
“Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the way you create that emotional state in a movie is by having the characters have physical jeopardy that they have to work against.”
“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and tot ake the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”
“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”
“Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.”
“Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.”
Source: Mankind my church,
“Action is always within reach.”
Source: 2 Book Set: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck & The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Journal
“Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Action is as necessary as intention.”
“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.”
“Action is character.”
Source: The Last Tycoon