Activity Quotes

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

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.

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

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

Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity.

We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

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

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

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

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.