activity Quotes

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. \'Calling cats,\' it confided, \'tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.

Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.

Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility.

Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual<br />its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.