Activity Quotes · Page 125

My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I…

— Philip Arthur Fisher

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

— Florence Nightingale

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development……

— Sunderlal Bahuguna

[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)…

— Anthony Giddens

Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing…

— Robert A. Young

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

— Brian Tracy

Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our…

— Milton Friedman

People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they…

— Albert Bandura

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

— Barack Obama

“Progress and motion are not synonymous.”

— Tim Fargo

The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs…

— Anne Waldman

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American…

— Hillary Clinton

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical…

— Xosha Roquemore

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference…

— Michael Ignatieff

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

— Mary Parker Follett

In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are…

— William Arthur Ward

There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War…

— Jaron Lanier

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of…

— Aristotle

There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised. One of these is eating. Nobody's going…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo,…

— Glen Hansard

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for…

— Rajneesh