Intelligent Action Quotes

#1. The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

Allen Newell

#2. I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

Michael Ealy

#3. It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. I try to be honest and I keep moving.

Erykah Badu

#5. The church has always been frightened of women. You make life in your bodies. An echo of God, that.

Anonymous

#6. If I put my tongue in your mouth, will you think of him?

Kit Rocha

#7. Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

Patrick Whitesell

#8. Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs ... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

Keith Getty

#9. Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.

Jennifer Arnett

#10. Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity.

John Macquarrie

#11. For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

Andre Maurois

#12. I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

James Spader

#13. You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

Max Landis

#14. For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Ornette Coleman

#15. Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.

Dave Kopel

#16. We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#17. Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Andre Gide

#18. It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Saint Augustine

#19. Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals.

The Edge

#20. I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

Leo Tolstoy

#21. All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

Action Bronson

#22. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions ... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating.

Sarah Palin

#23. We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

Ibn Khaldun

#24. Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author.

Mortimer J. Adler

#25. One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Bhagavad Gita

#26. I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie.

Michael Keaton

#27. I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

Bob Newhart

#28. Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

John Dewey

#29. Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#30. Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs