Quotes with activity

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  • Edwin P. Whipple In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Aldous Huxley In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Nauman In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy 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.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carly Fiorina 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.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • John Irving Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Dave Barry Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • John Wooden Never mistake activity for achievement.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Eliot Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bridget Riley Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Albert Einstein People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
    Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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