The true method of knowledge is experiment.
In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
When it comes to exploring your creative side, it's very easy to think of all the reasons you can't do it-you don't have the time, you don't have the money, etc. -but if you are truly passionate about expressing yourself, you can find a way. When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning. Take the next step and the next until what you've dreamed about begins to become reality.
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
Thought is action in rehearsal.
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units.
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been. . . one of the primary sources of progress.
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
