Activity Quotes

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Man's most serious activity is play.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain.

Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

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.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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