Activity Quotes - page 2

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time, ... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. (Dick Cheney)
Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
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. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. View quote
Albert Einstein
I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. (Andrew Weil)
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. View quote
Thom Mayne
I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
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. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. View quote
Greg Anderson
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. View quote
David Remnick
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. View quote
Kate Millett
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun. View quote
Christopher McDougall
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. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. View quote
Mark Hopkins
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. (Derek Bailey)
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. View quote
Ella Maillart
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me. View quote
Ian Hart
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. View quote
Peter Bart
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. View quote
Stockwell Day