Activity Quotes
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
Ernest Becker
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Activity without purpose is the drain of your life
Anthony Robbins
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I'm not political in the sense of activity. My activity, I guess, are the films. I can't really say if I'm worried or a bit optimistic. I think in a funny way I'm a little bit optimistic because even though nothing has really changed, and even though the governments keep changing and there's always chaos in the Arab world because it's not easy to cope with politically, for me it's really interesting.
Eran Riklis
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The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
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The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
Paul Samuelson
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Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
Arsenius the Great
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Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.
Edgar Schein
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One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you - on a regular basis.
Bobb Biehl
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Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.
Ernest Sosa
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Man is not distinguished from the animals by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development.
Ernst Haeckel
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
George Bernard Shaw
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As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.
Wole Soyinka
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By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.
Heidi Hammel
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Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.
Paul Keating
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If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.
William H. Whyte
