Action

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Justice is truth in action.