Activity Quotes

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

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

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

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.

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.

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.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.