A collection of 2,689 inspiring quotes about activity from various authors and sources.
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
Give birth, while young: do, plan more children. Yet the child needs a young and energetic dad, so that he can react to the mobility of his child. And at the age of already difficult to keep up with his activity!
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.