Activity Quotes

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. (Xun Zi)
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. View quote
Edward de Bono
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. View quote
William Howard Taft
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. View quote
Patañjali
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. View quote
Norman Mailer
Activity is the only road to knowledge. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. (Carroll Quigley)
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. View quote
Albert Einstein
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. View quote
John Updike
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. View quote
Wallace Stevens
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. View quote
Edward Sapir
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. View quote
E. O. Wilson
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. (Mortimer Adler)
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. View quote
Rosa Parks
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. View quote
Swami Vivekananda