Top 100 Quotes About The Action
#1. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia
#2. Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
Aphra Behn
#3. O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.
Thomas Watson
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Jonathan Eig
#5. All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#6. The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.
Eric Dane
#7. Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
Harper Lee
#9. Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.
Tyler Drumheller
#10. You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
Ben Stein
#11. The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."
Jackie Chan
#12. The power to reach our goal is always in the moment. When the moment arrives, be ready to perform the action that will help you reach your goal, and be aware when the moment is now.
Russell Eric Dobda
#15. I coughed and the action caused my stomach to erupt in pain, I felt like crying but didn't incase Micah was somewhere near and could see or hear me. She beat me up with ease, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of seeing or hearing me cry.
L.A. Casey
#16. Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
Derek Luke
#17. Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#19. The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
Garrison Wynn
#20. Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
Bobby Jones
#22. The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.
Jeff Cooper
#23. It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
David R. Ellis
#24. What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
James Gray
#25. Don't just jump into action just because people are taking action. Know and understand the next real action and reaction that will follow the action before you take any action.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
Peter McWilliams
#27. I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.
Bruce Feiler
#28. I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
Martin McDonagh
#29. 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
#31. Certein bodies ... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
Marie Curie
#32. For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.
Ruth Wilson
#33. The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.
Rudolf Virchow
#34. DO NOT BE CONCERNED WITH THE FRUIT OF YOUR ACTION - just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.
Eckhart Tolle
#35. Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
Samuel Fuller
#36. The consequences of successful action seemed almost as terrible as the consequences of inaction, and they could be more horrible for those who took the action. A bubble can easily be punctured. But to incise it with a needle so that it subsides gradually is a task of no small delicacy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#37. To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams
#38. I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.
Luke Evans
#39. Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.
Donnie Yen
#40. If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.
Russell James
#41. Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
Marshall McLuhan
#42. When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place
John Muir
#44. And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.
John Locke
#45. What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
Michel Foucault
#46. You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.
Frederick Lenz
#47. I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
Kevin Bacon
#48. Have the imagination, create the vision, go with passion, and take the action; you will achieve all of your goals.
Debasish Mridha
#49. A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
G. Wilson Knight
#50. Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.
Flannery O'Connor
#51. We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.
Thomas Merton
#53. I watch a lot of television and I watch a lot of film and I hate when you watch the action sequences - and I always tell when they use a stunt man - and then they put the actor in and you can tell these actors haven't done anything ...
Raymond Cruz
#54. Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.
Dada Bhagwan
#55. Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming
#56. No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#57. Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.
Shawn Achor
#58. Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.
Thomas Ian Griffith
#59. Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.
Jim Rogers
#61. I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'
Chick Hearn
#62. But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
Arthur Herzog
#63. Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.
Gudrun Ensslin
#64. Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable enemy."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 39
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#65. Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
Aristotle.
#66. The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process.
John Patrick Hickey
#67. And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.
Jess Walter
#68. When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#69. PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."
Ambrose Bierce
#70. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
Jim Butcher
#71. PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are.
Tom Stoppard
#72. There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects
Milton Friedman
#73. Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
Wendell Berry
#74. A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#75. Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is, the automatic System 1 is the hero of the book. I describe System 1 as effortlessly originating impressions and feelings that are the main sources of the explicit beliefs and deliberate choices of System 2. The
Daniel Kahneman
#76. The irregularities of the motion of Uranus ... in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.
[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]
John Couch Adams
#77. The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.
David Eagleman
#78. The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
George Harrison
#79. The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
Joel Silver
#80. An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.
Raheel Farooq
#81. I feel better already," she said making a move to get up, her joints and muscles protested the action, as they always did at first. She gritted her teeth and pushed herself to her feet anyway. If she waited till the pain stopped, she'd never get anything done.
Anais Torres
#82. We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
Bertolt Brecht
#83. When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley
#84. I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone - they fuelled my childhood. But now I don't think I'd like to do just action, I don't enjoy that.
Channing Tatum
#86. Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.
Chris Burkard
#87. Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.
Dick Costolo
#88. If you smile, even if you're feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you're happy
Candace Bushnell
#89. The custom of prefixing or appending to historical narratives an estimate of the character and personality of the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times - it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits apology or condemnation on moral and emotional grounds.
Ronald Syme
#90. It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
Ellen Key
#91. Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.
Karina Longworth
#92. A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
A. J. Bowen
#93. I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
James Jones
#94. I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.
James E. Faust
#95. [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
Walker Percy
#96. There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
Katie Cassidy
#97. Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.
Jean M. Auel
#98. Just because someone hurts you doesn't mean you can simply stop loving them. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.
Colleen Hoover
#99. Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
#100. When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
Zig Ziglar
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