Activity Quotes

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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build… — Barbara Kingsolver
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul… — Aristotle
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good… — Aristotle
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting… — Bruce Nauman
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,… — Jacques Maritain
I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. — Sophie Kinsella
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity. — Nikolai Gogol
Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to… — Elena Kagan
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own… — Antonio Gramsci
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is… — Peter Zumthor
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.… — Woodrow Wilson
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and… — Max Stirner
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be… — Andrew Weil
A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's… — Jim Cramer
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.… — Maria Montessori
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced… — Joe Slovo
It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is. — Bobby Jindal

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