Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us… — Robert Updegraff Copy Share Image
Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun… — Ken Spillman Copy Share Image
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community… — Albert J. Dunlap Copy Share Image
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in… — Simone Signoret Copy Share Image
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
