Action Research Quotes

I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone. ~ Christian De Duve

I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research ~ Otto Scharmer

In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach. ~ Mike Schmoker

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.' ~ Katrina Kaif

The unthinking glorification of digital activism makes its practitioners confuse priorities with capabilities. Getting people onto the streets, which may indeed become easier with modern communication tools, is usually the last stage of a protest movement, in both democracies and autocracies. One cannot start with protests and think of political demands and further steps later on. There are real dangers to substituting startegic and long-term action with spontaneous street marches. ~ Evgeny Morozov

Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening. ~ Frederick Douglass

Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel. ~ Richard Stearns

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. ~ Christopher Moore

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation. ~ Steve Backley

You can't help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action. ~ Dalai Lama

I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church."
"Then what is?"
"Salvation. ~ Catherine Marshall

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much. ~ Tama J. Kieves

My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she'd always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl's dream, if she can't have a vampire. ~ Karen Joy Fowler

Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie. ~ Eva LaRue

Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to some degree, in the way the media portrays the military. I'm not saying that's entirely wrong - the Fourth Estate is there to hold generals and colonels accountable for their actions and decisions - but having reporters on the scene, reporting in real time certainly complicates things for the military mission. ~ Dave Abrams

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family. ~ Juliet Landau

A woman writing of the joy and terror of furious combat, or of the lust of torture and killing, or of the violent forms of evil--isn't taken quite seriously. Because women aren't as capable of violent physical assault--not to speak of rape--as men are[...] So when one who writes about serious, violent evil turns out to be female, some readers may feel cheated--particularly if an action scene has stirred them. Now it all seems flat, even false--'What the hell does she know about real fighting? ~ James Tiptree Jr.

The future depends on what you do today. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action. ~ Alanis Morissette

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. ~ Cleveland Abbe

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions? ~ Karen Marie Moning

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith ... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie. ~ Brie Larson

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to. ~ George Edward Moore

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. ~ Michael J. Fox

People who adore the noises of action can die of boredom with the silence of inaction! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand. ~ Suze Orman

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures. ~ Ian Somerhalder

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. ~ Sam Harris

He who lives among a certain sort of people becomes accustomed to that kind of habit, behavior, and morals. Consequently the cool become enthusiastic, the stupid become sharp, the idle are aroused to activity by a lively interest in their fellow men. Spirit can give itself to spirit and act beneficially upon another and attract another to prayer, to attention. It can encourage him in despondency, turn him from vice, and arouse him to holy action. ~ Anonymous

Living requires but little life; doing requires much. ~ Joseph Joubert

There are so many different ways to develop a character - physically, mentally, spiritually and all of that - but the research was really beautiful. I love the process of finding characters because, in the beginning, it's really unknown, and then, by the end of it, all of a sudden, you're walking and talking like that character. ~ Abbie Cornish

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts. ~ Anna Quindlen

All right,' said Moreland, 'love, then. Is it better to love somebody and not have them, or have somebody and not love them? I mean from the point of view of action – living intensely. Does action consist in having or loving? In having – naturally – it might first appear. Loving is just emotion, not action at all. But is that correct? I'm not sure. ~ Anthony Powell

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping. ~ Bill Rancic

Action is the fundamental key to success. ~ Pablo Picasso

Enjoy good moments while they last, then make sure they're not the last ~ Constance Friday

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves. ~ A.J. Darkholme

Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research. ~ Anne Wojcicki

Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.) ~ David Rock

Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk. Some act well but some act to cover their acts ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah