The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So,… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s,… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
You can do so much in 10 minutes time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute… — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The promise of a reward can help encourage children to keep at a hard task. Offer something fun each time the child… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
