Activity Quotes

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"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly… — Hal Elrod
Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is… — Bengt I. Samuelsson
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your… — Frederick Lenz
Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by… — Gelek Rimpoche
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters… — William J. Clinton
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity… — Leo Tolstoy
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law… — Leo Tolstoy
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or… — Leo Tolstoy
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. — Richard P. Feynman
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with… — Marcus Aurelius
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,… — Eric Hoffer
The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters… — Erich Fromm
People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the… — George Carlin
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:… — Samuel Johnson
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. — Henry Moore
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth… — Margaret Sanger

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