activity Quotes

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. \'Necessity is the mother of invention\' is a silly proverb. \'Necessity is the mother of futile dodges\' is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.