Activity Quotes

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make. — Aristotle
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than… — Joan Didion
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
We know the presence of each passing moment by its activity, but the power and eternity of the moment can only be realized through our… — Guy Finley
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder… — Stephen R Covey
The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is… — Aidan Kavanagh
Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love… — M Scott Peck
No on should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by… — Bhagavad-Gita
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man — Sigmund Freud
With magnetism, power of uncondensed steam, gravitation, radiant energy of electric waves, equilibrium and activity of atoms, all inscrutable to human eyes, man still cries,… — Juan Antonio Samaranch
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. — John Updike
Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable. — Ordway Tead
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies? — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain… — Stephen Cambone
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a… — Alison Bechdel
Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Nietzsche
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception… — Leo N Tolstoy
Numbing is any activity that you use to desensitize your feelings so that you dont experience vulnerability or hurt. But by numbing yourself to vulnerability,… — Melchor Lim
When you strike that fine balance between the challenge of an activity and your skill at performing it, when the rhythm of your work feels… — Melchor Lim

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