Every little thing you do adds up, and before you know it, you've created your life. And how you create your life ripples out and affects everyone and everything that crosses your path, known or unknown to you.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.
I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.
Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.
Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.
Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."
Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.
Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.
Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.
What you say and do in a crisis matters.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
