Action Quotes - Page 26

• Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Action Movie

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.

  Harry Shearer

  Years, People, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Small Moments, Bigs, Relate

  Source: collider.com

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• I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

  Kit Harington

  Fighting, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

  William J. Clinton

  People, President, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Self, Desire

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Play, Absurd, Form

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• Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny, Men, Existence

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• The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Feelings, Causes

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1999). “Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations”, p.48, Stanford University Press

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Morality, Opium

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• Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Love, Grace, Deserve

  Robert H. Schuller (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Robert H. Schuller”, Bristol Park Books

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• Watch your actions, they become your habits.

  Winston Churchill

  Watches, Habit

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• Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Paper, Waste

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• The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Utterance, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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• There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Understanding, Firsts

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.3, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Betrayal, Want

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• If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Change, Life Changing, Mean

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2012). “Social Responsibility”, p.72, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

  Alexis Carrel

  Faith, Men, Reason

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• Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Son, Patriotism

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

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• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

  Eric Hoffer

  Military, Moving, Fighting

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

  Woody Allen

  Idols, Childhood, Sunrise

  "Woody chooses music over film", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2001.

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• Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

  Aristotle

  Art, Causes, Goodness

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Character, Past, Years

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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