activity Quotes

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good t

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

People tell me, \'I'm glad you said that.\' But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.

In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichГ©s.

Accustom yourself to tireless activity.

The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for 'Get Out, Leave Family.'

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.