Activity Quotes

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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how… — Matthieu Ricard
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that… — Maria Montessori
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars… — Morgan Freeman
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. — Ambrose Bierce
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then… — George Carlin
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many… — Alan Turing
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different… — Jim Rohn
It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate… — John Abizaid
Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time...… — Stonewall Jackson
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred...Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring… — Gary Zukav
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where… — Tom Robbins

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