Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

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

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.

Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

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