Activity Quotes

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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura… — Thomas Sowell
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality... — Salvador Dali
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome… — Samuel Smiles
In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and… — Arnold Bennett
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has… — Brian Sutton-Smith
Don't equate activity with efficiency. — Harvey Mackay
What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an… — Harvey Mackay
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity. — Joyce Carol Oates
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets… — Paul Klee
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is… — Thorstein Veblen
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes… — Eric Gill
The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from… — John Irving
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. — Ad Reinhardt
Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through… — Mary Parker Follett
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun. — Lowell Thomas
In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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