Action Time Quotes

#1. Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.

Terry Tempest Williams

#2. It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

John Tillotson

#3. Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

Jennifer Lawrence

#4. Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Jet Li

#5. If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then depression strikes, and you're pulled down.

Peter Hoeg

#6. From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

Terence Stamp

#7. Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.

Courtney Schafer

#8. Now is the time when your action is practice.

Dalai Lama

#9. Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.

Darby Stanchfield

#10. There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#11. He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

Jeremy Taylor

#12. 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

#13. The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#14. My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

Donnie Yen

#15. For a long time afterwards, in prison, when moral change took place in me, I thought of that moment, recalled what I could of it, and considered it. I remembered for an instant, before the action I had a terrible consciousness I was killing a defenseless woman, my wife!

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#17. I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.

Philippe Petit

#18. It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Andy Hargreaves

#19. Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

#20. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.

John Patrick Hickey

#22. He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived.

H.G.Wells

#23. If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.

Bryant McGill

#24. Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.

Francois Rabelais

#25. As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Gore Vidal

#26. Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a couple of years ago. Not human exactly. Human-ish. Close enough that she looked awesome without her shirt on.

Charles Yu

#27. Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

Carl Maria Von Weber

#28. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.

Suzy Kassem

#29. All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

Carl Sandburg

#30. I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

Jay Baruchel

#31. A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

Cesare Pavese

#32. The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management
time and distraction.

Bill Vaughan

#33. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden

#34. It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.

Alma Adams

#35. The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#36. Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.

Thomas Narofsky

#37. Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

David Josiah Brewer

#38. In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#39. I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

John Trudell

#40. Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Honore De Balzac

#41. Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

Sol Stein

#42. And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

David Blunkett

#43. Whatever you want to do, do it now. Time is not on your side.

Marty Rubin

#44. Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

John Kennedy Toole

#45. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

David Amerland

#46. There's no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose!

Kristi Bowman

#47. The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

Austin Ligon

#48. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#49. I hated this love that I had for my family - love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.
I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

Indu Muralidharan

#50. It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods; learn how to get rid of Anopheles gambiae by actually getting rid of Anopheles gambiae.

Fred Lowe Soper

#51. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Francis Cornford

#52. The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time -

Kim Stanley Robinson

#53. In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Giacomo Casanova

#54. Whereas experts spend more time diagnosing the situation and less time choosing a course of action, novices are inclined to focus on possible actions at the expense of situation assessment.

Emma Barrett

#55. It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.

A.J. Darkholme

#56. A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

Carl Eckart

#57. What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.

Esther Hicks

#58. I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#59. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#60. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

Joan Ruddock

#61. You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.

Vincent De Paul

#62. Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Paulo Coelho

#63. The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

Norm Dicks

#64. The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

Scott Belsky

#65. I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

Jose Padilha

#66. As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

Vijender Singh

#67. I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.

Henry Selick

#68. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day

#69. Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Reinhard Bendix

#70. Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

David Allen

#71. We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

George P. Shultz

#72. If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

Brian Tracy

#73. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.

Majid Kazmi

#74. To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Smiley Blanton

#75. Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Petra Kelly

#76. I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.

Muhammad Yunus

#77. The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Marshall McLuhan

#78. If a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Amelia Barr

#79. Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

Statius

#80. At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule

Harun Yahya

#81. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Khaled Hosseini

#82. It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#83. There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

Carly Fiorina

#84. The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

T. S. Eliot

#85. Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side.

Marty Rubin

#86. This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#87. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

T.L. Parker

#88. Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

Vladimir Lenin

#89. The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

Herbert Schiller

#90. We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."

James Keller

#91. Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Lydia Lunch

#92. It is your heart behind the action that allows you to prosper, not the action yourself. You can give away all your possessions, time, and energy, but if you do it to look good, to look pious, to look holy, you have already lost.

J. Evan Johnson

#93. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.

Karen Azinger

#94. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#95. Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, said, There are three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the right time. 2. Knowing you are there. 3. Taking action.

Jack Canfield

#96. The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.

Deyth Banger

#97. It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

William Stanley Jevons

#98. As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Edward Levi

#99. Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

Zoltan Kodaly

#100. If it is to BE.. it's up to ME. Time for SWIFT ACTION! id your best mindset reset.

Tony Dovale