Activity Quotes

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

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

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

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

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional 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.

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

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

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

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.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.