There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. John Henrik Clarke
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. Barbara Deming
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. Virginia Woolf
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Barbara Deming
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. Steven Brust
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. Aristotle
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. Cicero
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.Martin Luther King
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.William Shakespeare
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. Bernard M. Baruch
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. James A.Baldwin
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.Confucius
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? Arthur Miller
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.H. Jackson Brown,Jr.