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Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. -- Susan Collins
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. -- Learned Hand
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. -- Eknath Easwaran
Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another. -- Kris Carr
My hope is that when someone has that call to action, they realize that everybody can do something, even if that's just changing their own thinking. Women have to change the way they think, too. Not just men. -- Melanne Verveer
Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty. -- L. Frank Baum
Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support, -- Darius Rucker
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. -- Rand Paul
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years. -- Jane Goodall
Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively. -- Tony Robbins
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action. -- Camille Paglia
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating. -- Sarah Palin
Obeying a prophetic call to action brings positive benefits. -- Sherry K. White
The aim is to influence customers to use your product on their own, again and again without relying on overt calls to action such as ads or promotions. -- Nir Eyal
Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb. -- Erika Hall
Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals. -- Ban Ki-moon
The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. -- Steven Pressfield
I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action. -- Barry Sternlicht
Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, dont wait until later to live the way you were created. God created you to honor Him, find joy, and serve others. Dont sleep on that. Lastly, rise above the low expectations people have. -- Trip Lee
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. -- Sara Teasdale
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' -- Nick Nolte
It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself. -- Donnie Yen
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases. -- Henry Winkler
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great. -- Helen Mirren
I'm the wrong person to not be professional around. When someone calls 'action' and we're in the frame together, I'm gonna run you over. You're gonna get eaten alive. -- John C. McGinley
Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon. -- John C. Reilly
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action. -- Derek Luke
And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. -- Julian Castro
I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention. -- Ban Ki-moon
I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself. -- LeRoy Neiman
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. -- Steven Brust
Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me. -- Michael Jai White
I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession. -- Action Bronson
I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well. -- Action Bronson
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. -- Swami Vivekananda
Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action! -- Laurence Stuart
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. -- Lierre Keith
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion. -- Ludwig von Mises
Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.' -- Vince Lombardi
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. -- Alexander Pope
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn. -- Philip Kitcher
I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. -- Stendhal
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. -- Harrison Ford
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. -- Steven Pressfield
The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond. -- will.i.am
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. -- Jim Butcher
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order. -- Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition. -- Sri Aurobindo
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange. -- Ludwig von Mises
What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego. -- Bill Maher
Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there. -- Lisa Kudrow
Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key! -- David Ryan
We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web. -- DJ Spooky
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization. -- Robert Anton Wilson
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. -- Edgar Allan Poe

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