Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.
We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.
Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump out into your future. That kind of action is more like a direction. It's that same thinking that brought me to New York.
The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.
I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz. " You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.
I love action films. It's my favorite genre.
Create each day anew.
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
