The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.