An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

— Arnold H. Glasow

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

— Jack Welch

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

— Shoshana Zuboff

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

— Walter Pater

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

— Jason Statham

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

— Mara Brock Akil

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

— Akhenaton

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

— William Butler Yeats

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer