Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business. The threat to… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the… — William James 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
We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
I'm glad that the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country. I'm… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in… — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy,… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units… — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker 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
Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,… — Wilbur Olin Atwater Copy Share Image
Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are… — Carver Mead Copy Share Image
As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of… — George Will Copy Share Image