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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Comfort

Zone

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

Maynard Jackson

Opportunity

Action

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Bo Jackson

Action

Baseball

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.