Activities Quotes
888 quotes by 732 authors
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When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from…
— Sam Lipsyte
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure…
— Hyman Minsky
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.
— John Thain
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According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms…
— Susan Polgar
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My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.
— Franklin Chang Diaz
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We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri…
— Sunderlal Bahuguna
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places…
— Le Corbusier
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really…
— Alan Dean Foster
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Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
— John Dewey
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It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to…
— John Dewey
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
— William James
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Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.
— Jurgen Habermas
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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in…
— Hannah Arendt
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Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of…
— John Paul Stevens
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Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.
— Len Deighton
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I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have the energy and…
— Wangari Maathai
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It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in…
— Wangari Maathai
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Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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