Activity Quotes · Page 2

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in…

— Ludwig von Mises

The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who…

— Henry Hyde

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than…

— Ben Stein

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the…

— Lewis Mumford

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the…

— Dallas Willard

The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of…

— William Doyle

"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata.…

— Maximilian Kolbe

A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell…

— Bruce H. Lipton

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount…

— Steve McConnell

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

— Joseph Goebbels

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the…

— Herbert Spencer

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge,…

— Rudolf Rocker

If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such…

— Jacob Sullum

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even…

— David Brooks

I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those…

— Ryan Shapiro

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity…

— Mary McCarthy

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to…

— Thomas Hirschhorn

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing…

— Simon Critchley

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity…

— Mark Twain

Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne,…

— Henry More

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

— Donald Judd

My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me…

— Benoit Lecomte

Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you…

— Frederick Lenz