Quotes with activity

  • ... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
  • Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
  • Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
  • Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
  • I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
  • In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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  • Greg Anderson ... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • John Wooden Don't mistake activity for achievement.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Aristotle If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol Gilligan ... while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Activity is the only road to knowledge.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aaron C. Brown All exchange stimulates productive activity, whether exchange by gift, gambling, barter, or money transaction.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 5
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bertrand Russell All human activity is prompted by desire.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Maria Montessori An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
    On War (1832)
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    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Leonard Cohen Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bobby Ray Inman As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
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  • Burgess Owens At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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