Quotes with activity

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  • Paul J. Meyer Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Renunciation and activity both liberate,
    but to work is better than to renounce.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Howard Taft Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Tim O'Brien Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Andrew Grove Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Kate Millet The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Arthur E. Waite The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Albert Einstein The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John W. Gardner The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Bernard Crick The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 20
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • David Lehman There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
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