Action Quotes - Page 33

• What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

  Mel Gibson

  Adventure, Film, Proportion

  "Gibson says new film has 'mythic proportions'". www.today.com. October 28, 2005.

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• No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Way, Our Actions, Determine

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2011). “Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Hurt, Determination, Today

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• Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Mind, Patterns

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.7, Jaico Publishing House

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• We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

  Tony Blair

  British, Extremist, Knows

  PM's Press Conference, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. August 5, 2005.

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• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  Tony Blair

  Attitude, Loss, Opportunity

  "Tony Blair's Mansion House speech: full text". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2005.

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• It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

  John A. Macdonald

  Independent, People, House

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• In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Independent, Reality, Men

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• Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Acting, Reason, Pleasure

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.85, VM eBooks

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• It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Doe, Actors, Impossible

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Attitude, Character

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• We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

  George Wald

  Rest Of Life, Decision, Earth

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• Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Evil

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• The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Heart, Boys

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• A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Wicked Person, Evil, Demon

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• Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

  Pope John Paul II

  Israel, Events, Reason

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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• When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.

  Zoroaster

  Doubt

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

  John Cleese

  Intelligent, Creative, Trying

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• A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Country, Government, Done

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• I have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions.

  Richard Branson

  People, Should, Always Believe

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Tiny, Facts

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• All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

  Anna Brackett

  Spring, Real, Exercise

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• Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Practice, Society, Use

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Part I. The Value of Freedom, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

  Harry Browne

  Important, Realization, Safe

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