If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice. — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise. — John Rae Copy Share Image
Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are… — Geshe Gyeltsen Copy Share Image
When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
