activity Quotes

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ...

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

No amount of activity in the King's service will make up for neglect of the King Himself.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.