Active Quotes - Page 32

• To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

  Alison Pill

  Reading, Mind, Novel

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Community, Political, Faces

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

  Melissa Pritchard

  Art, Prayer, Literature

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• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  E. J. Gold

  School, Responsibility, Choices

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• The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face an increasingly complex financial marketplace, and it will take the combined efforts of public and private sector organizations to help seniors navigate the many financial choices they face. The start of Financial Literacy Month is an excellent opportunity to thank the Canadian Bankers Association and encourage other private sector organizations to take an active role in providing financial literacy support to Canada's seniors.

  Kevin Sorenson

  Senior, Opportunity, Government

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• I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Kids

  "Timothy Hutton and Beth Riesgraf Interview LEVERAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

  Paul McCulley

  Remember, Beta, Performances

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• Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Sexy, Computer, Cant

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• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

  Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

  Healing, Punishment, Soul

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• As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Sibling, Parent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

  Benjamin Van Roy

  Swimming, Animal, People

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• I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have achieved great accomplishments in many fields that were previously dominated by men.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Believe, Men, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was first drawn to active wear because I enjoy working out, and it's very important in this day in age. I really felt women were getting the tail end of the design in active wear; not getting the technology or design we deserved. It was reserved for men. We were getting the leftover work from the sports design houses.

  Stella McCartney

  Sports, Technology, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

  Allyson Felix

  Sports, Moving, Different

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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• I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

  Allyson Felix

  Sports, Thinking, Healthy

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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• I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving.

  Lorena Garcia

  Running, Moving, Self

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• I'm particularly keen on promoting this [Nikolai] Medtner piece, Night Wind, because I feel it is a fantastic work that hasn't been given its due yet. Admittedly, it's difficult for both the performer and the listener. The work is quite dense, comparatively long, as these things go, and demands rather active listening. But it's gripping, and I believe it should be heard much more than it has been.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Believe, Night, Wind

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• I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Race, Members, Humans

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• Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

  Walt Whitman

  Gay, Men, Body

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

  Raymond Williams

  Real, Choices, Decision

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• I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Careers, Political, Wish

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self, Defining, Assertive

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• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

  Richard Courant

  Expression, Perfection, Mind

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• I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Mind, Age

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