Human Activity Quotes

112 quotes by 98 authors

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes… — Fred Brooks
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,… — Mary McCarthy
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards… — Sidney Lanier
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in… — Kadmi Cohen
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade… — John Gresham Machen
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,… — Eric Hoffer
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.… — John Zachary Young
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. — H. L. Mencken
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of… — Yasuhiko Kimura
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their… — Leonard Cohen
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. — Aldous Huxley
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors,… — Thomas Huxley
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. — Michio Kaku
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to… — Robert Kennedy
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and… — Norman Mailer
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
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. — David Suzuki
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend… — Malcolm Turnbull
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity,… — E. O. Wilson

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