action Quotes

In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated.

[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we\'re physically together with all five senses. You can\'t raise a baby online.

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn\'t know it\'s about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, \'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,\' and I got so mad.

I know that\'s a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to open your eyes, act and doubt. And then you have to repeat for a lifetime.

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, \'Action is eloquence,\' and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.

Should people be mere \'interested spectators of action,\' not \'participants,\' restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the \'responsible men,\' as advocates of \'manufacture of consent\' have recommended? Or should their rights transcend these highly restricted bounds?

One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the most horrendous atrocities. In the sacred texts, we can find uplifting calls for peace, justice and mercy, along with the most genocidal passages in the literary canon. Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d\'états, the removal of legitimate power.

A crisis therefore is a call to action - a situation or event that demands your attention and forces you to decide how to react and what to choose for yourself going forward.

Successful individuals take action, which is what sets them apart from failed ones.

Risk-taking and audacious action are the only ways to succeed.

Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

Documents with signatures are already proof of action, this is an indisputable fact of the order.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let's be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action - the stunts. If they take that away from you, it's a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I'm an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

I\'ve always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

I have been very encouraged by President Obama\'s call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama\'s intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

I don\'t want to be a historical action figure or treated like I\'m dead. Like one of those people where they go, \'Oh, isn\'t she dead?\' And then I walk up, and they\'re like, \'Whoa.\' I can\'t really complain... because I\'ve made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, \'Yeah, come on in!\'

Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn\'t even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don\'t have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.

China\'s militarization of the South China Sea and aggressive action in international waters destabilizes the region and threatens shared efforts to promote security, the US will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, and we encourage all nations to confidently exercise their right to do the same.

Today\'s action to sanction Iran\'s Morality Police and senior Iranian security officials responsible for this oppression demonstrates the Biden - Harris Administration\'s clear commitment to stand up for human rights, and the rights of women, in Iran and globally.

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A week of unemployment is worse when it is experienced as part of a longer spell.

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

It\'s so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don\'t. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

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.

That shot in \\'Into the Inferno\\' somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, \\'That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to some of the main credits into it.\\' So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.