Vigorous Quotes

209 quotes by 176 authors

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Andrew Miller
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. — Oliver Goldsmith
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead
One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the… — Albert Einstein
It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood… — John Grant
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as… — Robert Fortune
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light. — Ken Macrorie
It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes… — Max Arthur Macauliffe
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so… — Charles Darwin
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous… — Tom Freston
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means… — Alice Duer Miller
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of… — R.J. Rushdoony
Be vigorous and full of energy, and make ceaseless efforts. This means that little things do not discourage you and that you approach all things… — Koichi Tohei
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts,… — George Washington
The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the… — Garrett Hardin
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper… — Laozi
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings… — Evelyn Underhill

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