activity Quotes

We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

In conditions of private property ... \'life-activity\' stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

To provide children with a happy childhood is to build yourself a calm old age.

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is \'artistic\' because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to <br />make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. <br />As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If <br />we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for <br />personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing <br />a part of our lives?

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.

Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.