Action Quotes - Page 113

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

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?

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

Since I learned the Secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical, I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of and I live on a day to day basis.

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

Everything is energy. All matter is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It is the cause and affect of itself. It is evenly present in all places, at all times. Energy is in constant motion and never rests. It is forever moving from one form to another. Energy follows thought.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal.

The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.

Those that are little, little things suit.

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?