Activity Quotes
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
August Kleinzahler
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
George Eliot
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Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
Erik Larson
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No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
Francis Chan
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
Alexandre Borovik
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Activity without purpose is the drain of your life
Anthony Robbins
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The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
David D. Aitken
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
Seth Godin
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Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.
Brian Tracy
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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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If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.
Thomas Woods
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
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Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
Susumu Tonegawa
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Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity.
Barney Kessel
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
Elise M. Boulding
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If I don't have a meaning to what I am doing, I am not convinced to be a part of that activity.
Sidharth Malhotra
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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.
Norman Mailer
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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
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.
Michael Sandel
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The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.
Michael Merzenich
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
Northrop Frye
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One thing is to not look at fitness as something that you do at a prescribed time of day in a prescribed room and a prescribed building. You should incorporate physical activity throughout your day.
Harley Pasternak