Human Activity Quotes
112 quotes by 98 authors
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Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.
— Langdon Winner
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Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully…
— Jeffrey Zeldman
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I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
— Michael Longley
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Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds…
— Marvin Harris
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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and…
— Robert Harris
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I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human…
— Charles Edison
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The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of…
— Unknown Author
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Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
— Unknown Author
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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
— Alan Watts
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Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It…
— Lance Secretan
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There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.…
— Thomas Berry
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To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and…
— Dalai Lama
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
— Alan Watts
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People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and…
— Duane Hanson
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Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and…
— Alan Watts
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It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.
— Bobby Jindal
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[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
— David Hilbert
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It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we…
— Nick Bostrom
Who Wrote These Human Activity Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 112 Human Activity Quotes, led by these top contributors: