Best movement & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.”

Littles Helping Problem Action Together Lying Three Bits Can Do Environment Movement Little Bit Environmental Collectives Together We Can Collective Action

Author:Clay Shirky

“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.”

Ifs Way Action Political Deals Streets Movement Wall Unions Collaboration Political Action Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement

Author:David Harvey

“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Action Moving Our Lives Growing Progress Movement Keys Evolution Opposites Stuck Developing Accomplishment Staying Mature Expanding Clarifying

Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

“The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”

Action Fall Movement Involved Activity Ego Flow Jazz Sake Time Flies Playing Jazz

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.”

Made Action Courses Voice Movement Mass Gains Weight Dues Momentum Tangible Small Actions

Author:Adam Braun

“A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.”

Heart Littles Made Soul Character Body Action Grace Movement Pure Motive Manifest Mechanism Accord Right Action

Book:The Christian Science Journal

Source: The Christian Science Journal

“Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.”

Done Action Social Causes Justice Virtue Movement Internals Things Done

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.”

“Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.”

Trying Action Spiritual Form Force Accepting Movement Ideals Intellect Characteristics Labour Horizon Creeds Inward New Horizons

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.”

Feels States Action Actors Causes Interesting Acting Consciousness Watches Movement Conscious Landscape Tension Dull Internals Resolve Emblems

Book:Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

“Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.”

“It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).”

World Way Should Mind May Persons Action Form Born Car Example Movement Objects Theory Research Bases Paint Portraits Outlook Static Ballerina Speeding Inanimate Objects Futurist Speeding Cars

Author:Gino Severini

“We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.”

“The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.”

Play Shows Action Form Stage Movement Building Drama Tables Boxes Trials Agendas Executives Sequence Jury Reserved Exit Benches Entrances Courtroom Aquariums Elizabethan

Author:Shana Alexander

“When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.”

Use Body Action Political Names Force Party Class Movement Ought Tools Patient Operations Progressive Preaching Homeland Political Power Reactionaries Tumors Progressive Movement

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.”

Mean Ends Action Evil Conditions Dangerous Movement Reflection Capacity Transforming Lead In Retrograde

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.”

Want Action Movement Sincerely

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.”

Way Made Stories Action Film Felt Natural Movement Made It Choreography Action Films

Author:Rob Marshall

“All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.”

Mean Action Enemy Atheism Movement Conflict Mass Individuality Positive Atheism Mediums Collectives Followers Unification

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .”

Way Firsts Children Book Action Teacher Movement Inspire Observation Spontaneous Montessori

Book:The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method

“Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.”

Humans Sometimes Seems Action History Movement Determined Wide Destination Shore Arcs Human Actions

Author:George W. Bush

“Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.”

“As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.”

World Real Action Movement Expected Our Actions

Author:Emile Chartier

“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.”

“Never confuse movement with action.”

Inspirational Action Funny Past Work Movement Confusion Crafts

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.”

Thinking World Mind Art Different Philosophy Action Film Form Movement Internals Martial Arts Action Films

Author:Jet Li

“The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.”

Important Matter Character Stories Care Action Jobs Movement Consequence Important Things Don't Care I Don't Care Plot Villain Protagonists

Author:Amy Pascal

“Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.”

Ifs Action Strong Behinds Movement Depends Visible Very Strong

Author:Jeanne de Salzmann

“There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Hard Action Film Moving One Thing Movement Weight Muscles Action Movie

Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.”

Way Writing States Play Body Happens Action Form Universe Games Awareness Movement Conscious Athlete Superiors Dancer Strokes Paradigm Interference Good Athlete Body Awareness Superior Intelligence

Author:Laozi

“On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.”

Way Want Needs Bigs Action Actors Fun Simple Ability Levels Movement Materials Scene Directors Big Things

Author:Adrian Hodges

“Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you. It is simply a movement to release and ease your heart of the pain and hatred that binds it. It is the harvested fruit of a season of darkness, followed by a season of growth and of very hard work.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Hard Action Pain Growth Darkness Movement Hard Work Hatred Seasons Fruit Release Ease Justify

Author:Dawna Markova

“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.”

Want Hands Action Used Race Cutting Modern Movement Cameras Technique Action Movie Zoom Death Race

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.”

Trying Important Action Events Figures Movement Arms Gestures Twists Literal Freeze Exaggerated

Author:Leon Golub

“Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.”

Made Important Action Differences Issues Movement Raises Election Environmental Minimum Discourse Minimum Wage Get Money Environmental Issues Occupy Movement

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.”

Thinking Country States Action Strong United Effort United States Support Progress Movement Lessons Weak Violent Solidarity Hostile Superpower Haitian

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is no doubt that the actions of ISIS are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose. That helps them recruit. That adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to have carry out an action that somehow they're part of a larger movement.”

Want Persons Helping Might Action Young Doubt Movement Add Threat No Doubt Twisted Isis Recruit Amplify

Author:Barack Obama

“The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.”

Heart Happens Action Faces Can Do Emotion Example Movement Program Complexes Release Guts Internals Your Face Execution Molecules

Author:Antonio Damasio

“In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.”

Persons Action Order Belief Movement Institutions Conversion Code

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.”

Source: THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH

“We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."”

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