Activity Quotes

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It’s fun to help others because it feels good.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.

I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is.

Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.