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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action." »Eric Hoffer
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." »Michael Hanson
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." »Joel Barker
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"Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the scene that We do not." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?" »Alfred A. Montapert
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery." »Henry Miller
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"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." »Midge Dector
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"The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen
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"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured." »Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
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"How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown" »William Shakespeare
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"The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived." »Elizabeth Jenkins
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"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast." »Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello"
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"How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
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"The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity." »Edwin Markham
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"An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas
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"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." »Albert Einstein
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"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." »John Adams
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"On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
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"On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita
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"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." »Vincent Canby
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