Activity Quotes - Page 36

• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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• Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

  Bridget Riley

  Spiritual, Thinking, Painting

  Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”

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• 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.

  Willem de Kooning

  Lying, Thinking, Way

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Writing, Animal, Interesting

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• It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.

  John Paul Stevens

  People, Feelings, Desire

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• No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

  Robert Bork

  Thinking, Harm, Immoral

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

  Len Deighton

  Mistake, Silly, Creative

  LEN DEIGHTON (1967). “AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE”

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• When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic - here on Sixth Avenue, for instance - I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound... I don’t need sound to talk to me.

  John Cage

  Talking, Ideas, Feelings

  Interview with Miroslav Sebestik (1991), as quoted in Miroslav Sebestik's documentary "Listen" (ARTE France Developpement), 2003.

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• I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have the energy and creativity to shape a sustainable future. To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

  Wangari Maathai

  Dream, Creativity, Long

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in local activities, get involved in local initiatives, be involved in leadership positions because you can’t learn unless you are involved. And if you make mistakes that is alright too because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mistake, People, Important

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• Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Men, Law, Numbers

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• Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Spiritual, Art, Said

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• The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity.

  Raymond Queneau

  Fall, Inspiration, Waiting

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• Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

  Thomas Szasz

  Strong, Sex, Powerful

  The Second Sin "Sex" (1973)

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• Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.

  Jacob de Jager

  Fall, People, Bed

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• Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

  Julia Child

  Drawing, People, Justice

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• Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.77, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Spiritual, Children, Father

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• I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

  Marc Andreessen

  School, Long, Focus

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• We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons

  Michael Gurian

  Games, Space, Giving

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.168, Penguin

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• For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Focus, Essentials, Tasks

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.37, Penguin

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• Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Focus, Mind, Calm

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• RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Stupidity, Intellect

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.175, 谷月社

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• Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Greed, Phases, May

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• All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.

  Leonard Carmichael

  Learning, People, Sense Of Humor

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