As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.
Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away!
Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages
God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions.
Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!
The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.
... 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.]
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.
The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.
