Activity Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.
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All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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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.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.
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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.
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The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We can actually learn from our mistakes and we can actually learn to conditionally structure our activities.
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Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
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Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.
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Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)
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I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
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I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
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Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
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What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
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Money inspires activity, not honesty.
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In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
