Activity Quotes · Page 23

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

— Nikolai Gogol

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

— Paul Gauguin

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

— Billy Collins

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

— Ernest Sosa

Worship, the act of freely giving love to God, forms and informs every activity of the Christian's life.

— John Wimber

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take…

— Harrison Ford

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any…

— Charles Edison

What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses…

— Richard Stallman

It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing…

— Viola Spolin

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a…

— Sidney Lanier

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it…

— Barry Commoner

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no…

— Sigmund Freud

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it…

— Katsuki Sekida

This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise…

— Adolf Hitler

In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism…

— Thomas Pogge

You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then…

— Guido Molinari

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is…

— Mao Zedong

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other…

— Ezra Taft Benson

These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as…

— George Barna

Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do…

— Anthony Standen

The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

— Daniel D. Palmer

Thats been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, thats…

— Erik Paulsen

I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

— Jeff Sessions

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me…

— James Taylor

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they…

— Nat Hentoff

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector…

— John Ralston Saul

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.

— Timothy Levitch

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

— Albrecht Kossel

I think you can lose yourself in any creative activity - if you enjoy your job or enjoy a task, you can…

— Maria Bamford

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders…

— Vladimir Putin

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal…

— Oren Peli

Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is…

— Jim Sturgess

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

— Gary Gygax

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls…

— Gerry Lindgren

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer