Physical Action Quotes

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.

See the ball; hit the ball.

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do something large against this - and this set up a kind of opposition.

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.

The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.