Activity Quotes

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

I saw Paranormal Activity on Halloween with all my friends. It scared me, but it was so much fun.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.