Activity Quote by John Dewey

I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea…

— Clint Smith

In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are…

— Mark Kac

“There is no division, in practice, between work and life. [An intellectual craft] is a practice that involves the whole person, continually drawing on…

— Tim Ingold

I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I…

— Shane Carruth

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters,…

— John Dewey

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

— Rupert Sheldrake

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information.…

— Edward de Bono

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

— Sachin Tendulkar

“When one’s mind is qualitative, organized and disciplined, whatever one does will also be equally meritorious. Discipline,”

— Rajendra B. Aklekar

“If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?”

— Mark Twight

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation…

— Samuel Alexander