Activity Quotes

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We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity,… — Michael Gurian
For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect. — Ambrose Bierce
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. — Pearl S. Buck
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely… — Ernest Becker
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined… — Alice Miller
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do… — Barry Commoner
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the… — Al Gore
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity,… — Richard Lindzen
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the… — George W. Bush
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a… — Paul Hawken
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is… — Vito Russo
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason… — Alfred Kinsey
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo… — Alfred Kinsey
Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best… — Jacques Barzun
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span… — E. O. Wilson
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz
Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives. — Betty Dodson

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