Activity Quotes
1646 quotes by 1225 authors
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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
— Scott McCloud
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House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level…
— Ben Bernanke
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Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in…
— Julius Evola
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Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.
— Langdon Winner
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The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions…
— Harold Innis
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Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).
— Lee Haney
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When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the…
— Lee Haney
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A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and…
— John Burroughs
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The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.
— Terry Winograd
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When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a…
— Augusto Boal
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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
— Derek Bailey
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake,…
— Haile Selassie
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So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in…
— P D Ouspensky
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Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.
— Zig Ziglar
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Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from…
— Henri Nouwen
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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
— Henri Nouwen
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What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly…
— David Suzuki
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I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I…
— James Ellroy
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There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course…
— Peter Steele
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