#action

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. ↗

— Charles Macklin

#bad #good #laws #offspring

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#crumbling #distraction #dream #entertainment #everything

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#action movies #comedy #hard #i #like

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong. ↗

— Karen McCarthy

#committee #did #i #know #nothing

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#across #barely #earth #flames #look

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me. ↗

— John McTiernan

#action movies #any #around #before #couple

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational-quotes #satisfaction #attitude

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#based #between #both #church #convictions

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn