Activity Quotes

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or… — Leonard Cohen
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. — Thomas Aquinas
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. — Rick Warren
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the… — August Weismann
Accustom yourself to tireless activity. — Alexander Suvorov
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichÃ©s. — H. L. Mencken
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing… — Shunryu Suzuki
You can do so much in 10 minutes time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice… — Ingvar Kamprad
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. — Oswald Chambers
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia. — Alistair Sinclair
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great… — Lance Secretan
People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as… — Bill Bradley
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual. — Paulo Freire
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something… — Margaret Meagher
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we… — Giuseppe Mazzini

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