Activity Quotes

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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better… — W. Edwards Deming
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege… — Jacques Barzun
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer… — Jacques Derrida
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history… — Louis Althusser
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path… — Manny Farber
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years… — John F. Kennedy
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. — Bridget Riley
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can… — Willem de Kooning
No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral. — Robert Bork
When I hear what we call â€˜music,â€™ it seems to me that someone is talking.Â And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of… — John Cage
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to… — Raymond Queneau
Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make… — Thomas Szasz
Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they… — Jacob de Jager
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the… — Julia Child
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has… — Leo Tolstoy

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