Action Quotes

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it."

— Amen! If it were up to me, the price of admission to The Critic's and Judge's Club would be to spend a few years in the field, dealing hand's on with real problems. After that, even if you failed, at least you speak with some legitimacy.

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?"

— When words and actions are at odds, believe the actions.

"I don't know what to say really. Three minutes until the biggest battle of our professional lives, all comes down to today….

"I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I made every wrong choice a middle aged man can make…. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life is this game of inches; so's football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early, and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us, they're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch....

"Now, I can't make ya do it. You gotta look at the guy next to ya, look into his eyes. Now I think you're gonna see a guy who will go that inch with ya. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it, you're gonna do the same for him. That's a team gentlemen," Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino).

— Life is a game of inches.

"If you have to choose between power and speed — and it often turns out you have to make that choice — you've got to go for speed."

— I've seen far more people fail in timing than in strength of position. Perhaps this speaks to my fascination with time pieces.

"Love of bustle is not industry."

— Or, to quote Scout: "When in danger, when in doubt; run in circles, scream and shout" (attributed to her not because I think she made it up, but out of appreciation to her for sharing it with me).