Activity Quotes

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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. — Michel de Montaigne
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. — Maria Montessori
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer:… — Maria Montessori
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other… — Robert Moog
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. — Ralph Nader
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward… — Jim Morrison
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication… — Vladimir Nabokov
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs.… — Janet Napolitano
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.… — Joyce Carol Oates
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. — Steven Pinker
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure… — John Piper
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean. — Vladimir Putin
In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace. — Dave Ramsey
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. — Chris Rock
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. — Jonathan Sacks
I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there… — Eric Schmidt
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else… — Will Self

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