The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.
Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
