Top 71 Ideas To Action Quotes
#2. Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous - dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.
James Baldwin
#3. Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.
Erich Fromm
#4. When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.
Rob Marshall
#5. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.
Ilchi Lee
#6. Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.
Raymond Charles Barker
#7. If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.
Guy Pearce
#8. Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.
Francis Chan
#9. The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.
Corey Feldman
#10. Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.
Eric Hoffer
#11. I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
Gemma Cairney
#12. When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.
Julie Connor
#13. Take opportunities to initiate ideas and action as often as you stand ready to offer support for them.
Amy Lisewski
#14. A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#15. When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.
Kevin Eikenberry
#16. Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.
Laura Joplin
#17. Have firm ideas of a particular life changes you wish to put into action.
Steven Redhead
#18. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.
And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.
David J. Schwartz
#20. It's not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas - you must initiate action.
Lorii Myers
#21. Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.
Oswald Mosley
#22. The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.
Jack Welch
#23. Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.
Gloria Steinem
#24. The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is precisely the sign of their incapacity for action.
Will Durant
#25. And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.
Paul Mason
#26. It's all based around the idea that basically VW cars are space age. They're the worst cars to use in action movie, because all the things you want to traditionally do in an action movie they won't allow you to do, because they make you drive safely if you want to or not.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#27. Goals change, ideas of technology are transformed, but action always remains action. Action always seeks means to realize ends, and it is in this sense always rational and mindful of utility. It is, in a word, human.
Ludwig Von Mises
#28. To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Virginia Woolf
#29. We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bruce Jackson
#30. I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that ... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.
Jeff Lemire
#31. It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
Augustine Birrell
#32. When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
Cara Delevingne
#33. First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
Napoleon Hill
#34. We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
Audre Lorde
#35. I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free
Tony Benn
#36. The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.
Gerald Brommer
#37. The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.
Christopher Meledandri
#38. The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.
Jacques Ellul
#39. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#40. Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
Marcus Aurelius
#41. To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
Scott Reed
#42. My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
George Burns
#43. Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#44. It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
Erin Morgenstern
#45. We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.
Paul Tournier
#46. This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher
#47. Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
Ray Bradbury
#48. The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.
Elizabeth Janeway
#49. God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
William Matthews
#50. The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas - your own and those offered by others ... .
Frederick Seitz
#51. Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.
Herbert Marcuse
#52. I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.
Zoe Bell
#53. The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.
Scott Belsky
#54. The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.
Hans Hartung
#55. As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
#56. He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#57. Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. Through Economic Action Plan 2015, our Government will continue to help create jobs, encourage skills development and balance the budget in 2015. I look forward to hearing Canadians' ideas on what we can do to further support and grow the economy for the benefit of all Canadians.
Kevin Sorenson
#59. That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
Tom Kelley
#60. What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.
Theodore Levitt
#61. If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.
Murray Rothbard
#62. The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.
Jason Mraz
#63. As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.
Audre Lorde
#64. When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.
Robert Ringer
#65. Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
Napoleon Hill
#66. A great idea is already an action! It is so powerful that it needs no time to turn into an action. It becomes action the day it was born!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Why does it matter if particular thoughts or ideas are top of mind? Because accessible thoughts and ideas lead to action.
Jonah Berger
#68. Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
Jack Donovan
#69. I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.
Christopher Nolan
#70. Joseph Conrad once wrote that 'it is the peculiarity of Russian natures that however sharply engaged in the drama of action, they are still turning their ear to the murmur of abstract ideas'.106
S.A. Smith
#71. Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
Alexander Kotov
