Top 48 Ideas Without Action Quotes
#3. 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
#4. Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decter
#5. 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
#6. Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. 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
#8. The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.
Jacques Ellul
#9. This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher
#10. The idea of, 'The journey is the destination' is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a 'More Like This' link on the internet.
Patton Oswalt
#11. Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at the first instant their very transformation disengages a feeling of joy.
Marcel Proust
#12. All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.
Alan Carr
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.
John Zerzan
#18. Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Frances Wright
#19. Why does it matter if particular thoughts or ideas are top of mind? Because accessible thoughts and ideas lead to action.
Jonah Berger
#20. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
Miguel Ruiz
#21. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Joseph Addison
#22. I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.
Paulo Freire
#23. A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.
Jack Canfield
#24. All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. 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
#27. Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
Simon Sinek
#28. Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
David Seabury
#29. 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
#30. The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.
Scott Belsky
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
John F. Kennedy
#34. Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
George Santayana
#35. 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
#36. Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
Peter Drucker
#37. Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#38. Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.
James Jackson Jarves
#39. Successful entrepreneurs don't have better ideas; instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.
Farshad Asl
#40. 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
#41. The best achievement of a man is that he converts his ideas into action.
Frank Underwood
#42. 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
#43. Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.
Jack Welch
#44. 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
#45. The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
Napoleon Hill
#46. 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
#47. Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#48. 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
