Act Immediately Quotes

#1. Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Jane McGonigal

#2. There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.

Terry Goodkind

#3. When God gives you an idea, you must act immediately on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Alan Autry

#5. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

Gillian Flynn

#6. A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

Erwin McManus

#7. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Honore De Balzac

#8. It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

David Spangler

#9. ... he murmured. "Of course, you're my favorite ride." "Aw, that's sweet, baby. And you're my favorite joystick.

Sylvia Day

#10. All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. My favorite memories were with my dad, throwing a football around when he came home from work. As long as kids are having fun, that's the biggest deal at the end of the day.

Andrew Luck

#12. I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

Robert Rodriguez

#13. He liked washing up; the simple act of cleanliness had immediately visible results.

James Runcie

#14. Writing can be thankless. People treat writing like it's some elegant act but it's usually lonely and isolating. You will struggle over a piece of writing and then get to set and some dumb actor will say it wrong or immediately want to change it.

Amy Poehler

#15. As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

John C. Maxwell

#16. Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

Amy Ridenour

#17. Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

Greg Bear

#18. Immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

Josh Sugarmann

#19. If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Jim Yong Kim

#20. Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." ... But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

Henry A. Kissinger

#21. Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ...

David Lee Roth

#22. A decision loses its charm unless you can act on it immediately.

Monica Dickens

#23. The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based.

Henry Johnson Jr

#24. The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!

Donald Trump

#25. Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.

Joseph Wambaugh

#26. We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Bryant H. McGill

#27. I'm gay."
"Oh. Of course." Immediately, Martin regretted saying "of course". He should have acted surprised. People are flattered if you act surprised when they come out, something Martin thought was stupid and vaguely homophobic but...

Marshall Thornton

#28. During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Niklaus Wirth

#29. The few times I said to myself anywhere: 'Now that's a nice spot for a permanent home,' I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth.

Vladimir Nabokov

#30. There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open your heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it into calculated gesture stripped of grace and efficiency.

Daniel Odier

#31. People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

Robert Mueller

#32. AFFUSION (AFFU'SION) n.s.[affusio, Lat.]The act of pouring one thing upon another. Upon the affusion of a tincture of galls, it immediately became as black as ink.Grew'sMusaeum.

Samuel Johnson

#33. A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with the several states, and that "the tendency of the bill is to resuscitate the spirit of rebellion".

Eustace Mullins

#34. Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.

Dave Eggers

#35. Often to make acts of love towards Jesus Christ. Immediately on waking, and before going to sleep, to make an act of love, seeking always to unite your own will to the will of Jesus Christ.

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#36. Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#37. We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

Lloyd Blankfein

#38. All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Joshua Foer

#39. Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

J.D. Salinger