Activity Quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other…

— Henry Giroux

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the…

— Pope Leo XIII

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place…

— Mohsin Hamid

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Fighting's fun, man. It's a great activity, it's a great sport.

— Matt Mitrione

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but…

— Lisa Lucas

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can…

— Pearl S. Buck

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

— Criss Jami

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

— Gero Miesenbock

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

— Paul Goodman

Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could…

— Leonard Read

“Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.”

— Bryant McGill

I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.

— Charlie Kimball

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

— Charlie Munger

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is…

— Patanjali

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one…

— Hugh Laurie

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a…

— Ayn Rand

Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.

— Stuart Wilde

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the…

— Martin Buber

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected…

— Eckhart Tolle

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

— Susan Maushart

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests…

— Carl von Clausewitz