Activity Quote by Mary Schmich Download Open image “The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.” — Mary Schmich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Done Feel better Feels Soul Spirituality Tvs
People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
TV is part of your life - it makes you feel connected to the rest of the world - as opposed to someone else's… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
“Although watching TV is far from being a positive experience—generally people report feeling passive, weak, rather irritable, and sad when doing it—at least the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time? — Lauren Zalaznick Copy Share Image
I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“Although it might seem like a nightly relaxation ritual, watching television can add to your stress because it pulls you away from other things… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
I have realised that TV is extremely gratifying in the sense that people see you in their houses, and they get very attached to… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
“I now believe that television itself, the medium of sitting in front of a magic box that pulses images at us endlessly, the act… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image