Action Quotes

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid... but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

~ Andy Serkis

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

~ Story Musgrave

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

~ Isaac Newton

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

~ Meister Eckhart

Never mistake motion for action.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

~ José Martí

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

~ Barry Commoner

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

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

~ James Broughton

Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

With Iran, we negotiated privately in 2012-2013 from a position of strength, not a position of weakness. The secret negotiations in Oman. This ultimately led to the Joint Plan of Action of November 2013.

~ Tom Cotton

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

~ Ron Johnson

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

~ Angelina Jolie

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

~ Vladimir Lenin

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

~ Indira Gandhi

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

~ Bella Abzug

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

~ William James

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

~ William Dean Howells

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

~ Napoleon Hill

No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability to feel the change faster and take decisive action faster.

~ Guo Guangchang

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

~ Brian Eno

The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

~ David Ignatius

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

~ Victor Hugo

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

~ Geoff Mulgan

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

~ E. Stanley Jones

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

~ Ferdinand Mount

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

~ Jenny Shipley

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

~ Ferdinand Mount

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.

~ Jay Samit

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

~ Frank Murphy

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

~ Lewis Mumford

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

~ Pope Francis

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

~ John Ruskin

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

~ Martha Graham

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

~ Bruce Springsteen