Action Analysis Quotes

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

When you are performing at the top level you don't get many chances to go back to basics as you are in elite performance mode. It's hard to break your technique or action down when it always needs to be at a match intensity.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

When I see action sequences I like, I imagine what I would do if it were me in the fight.

I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people's bodies are, how they react to certain kind of moves - what foot they step with, what hand they jab with, and all that. Just little things like that, that you pick up when you watch film. Studying is big for me.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.