activity quotes

• Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. (John Updike) [creativity/plus/activity/activity]
• Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. (John Updike) [activity/right]
• ... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. (Greg Anderson) [journey/joy/activity]
• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. ( Aristotle) [happiness/activity]
• Happiness is activity. ( Aristotle) [happiness/activity]
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. (Thomas Carlyle) [more/activity/insight]
• A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [face/activity/soul & body]
• What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [people/people/activity]
• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves. (Emile Durkheim) [activity/meditation/give/being]
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. (Albert Einstein) [truth/beauty/activity]
• 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) [life/misfortune/activity/worldly]
• Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life/willpower/activity]
• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [nature/activity/night/right]
• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [people/activity/evil/power]
• Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [activity/insight]
• Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [activity]
• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. (Andrew Grove) [activity/result]
• Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it. (Samuel Johnson) [sorrow/activity/willpower]
• We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living. (John F. Kennedy) [look/activity]
• Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler) [activity/type/process]
• What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning? (Henry Miller) [mountain/activity/civilization & progress/face]
• For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [art/activity]
• All human activity is prompted by desire. (Bertrand Russell) [human/activity/desire]
• In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. (Bertrand Russell) [science/men/activity/value]
• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. (George Bernard Shaw) [being/men/activity]
• 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) [leisure/activity/activity/leisure]
• I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber. (Ewan McGregor) [activity]
• Those shows were all action shows. They involved a lot of tough, physical activity. (Lee Majors) [action/activity]
• Any idealistic activity outside of my work is something confined to a few field trips with UNICEF in Uganda. (Ralph Fiennes) [activity]
• We did a team activity tonight before the game. We did the trust walk thing and we talked about it — What does this mean? It means you've got to trust your teammates. You've got to believe in each other, talk and communicate. (Cindy Williams) [team/activity/trust/thing]
• I dig the whole process so much, movies, plays, any theatrical activity. (Scott Caan) [process/activity]

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