Activity Quotes

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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but… — Gaston Bachelard
Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the… — James E. Talmage
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our… — William James
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. — Learned Hand
All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or… — Swami Vivekananda
We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point. — Susan Maushart
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the… — Michael Gungor
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention,… — Susanne Katherina Langer
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental… — Lytton Strachey
First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to… — G. Edward Griffin
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages… — Gerry McGovern
The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is… — Peter R. Orszag
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here… — Richard Posner
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government… — John Poindexter
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. — Xunzi
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action,… — Jerome Bruner
Man's most serious activity is play. — George Santayana
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off,… — J. B. Priestley
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and… — Alan Watts

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