Activity Quotes

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The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more.… — David Brooks
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is… — Karl Marx
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of… — H.G. Wells
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the… — Charlotte Mason
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you… — Paulo Coelho
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. — Luciano Pavarotti
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. — Elise M. Boulding
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others… — Andrea Dworkin
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking… — Toni Morrison
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just… — Bernard Crick
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life… — Michael Sandel
Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling… — Robert Farrar Capon
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. — Samuel Johnson
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive… — George Balanchine
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the… — Milarepa
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable. — John Stott

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