Activity Quotes - Page 38

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

Thomas Szasz

Sex, Disease, Masturbation

The Second Sin (1973) "Sex"

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Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

Betty Dodson

Suffering, Firsts, Natural

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Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter.

Dave Barry

Sex, Fun, Views

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys”, p.36, Ballantine Books

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The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.

Steve McVey

Christian, Religious, Fire

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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Hal Abelson

Real, Ideas, Numbers

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It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Goal, Challenges, Vision

Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.172, Penguin

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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

Gautama Buddha

Buddhist, Feelings, Perception

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A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.

Christopher McCormick

Educational, Fancy Things, People

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Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness, Lying, Makeup

Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.29, Penguin

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If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness, Powerful, Unhappy Person

Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.

Richard Bangs

Dream, Rain, Elephants

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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Henry Williams

Learning, Science, Simplicity

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Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

James Ramsey Ullman

Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Exercise, Our Society, Slim

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[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in their ongoing activities. System design, it follows, must include not only the design of innovative technologies, but their artful integration with the rest of the social and material world.

Lucy Suchman

Technology, People, Design

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You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

Michael Beckwith

Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Choices

FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Aug 08, 2016

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When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.

Gangaji

Wisdom, Spiritual, Thinking

"The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance". Book by Gangaji, 2007.

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To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes...that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.

Stanley B. Goldenberg

Believe, Impact, Weather

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It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'

Roy Spencer

Strong, Average, Weather

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Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.

Dalai Lama

Buddhist, Law, Causes

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Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Fred Reed

Character, Games, Class

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There is one sure way to identify your greatest potential for strength: Step back and watch yourself for a while. Try an activity and see how quickly you pick it up, how quickly you skip steps in the learning and add twists and kinks you haven't been taught yet. See whether you become absorbed in the activity to such an extent that you lose track of time. If none of these has happened after a couple of months, try another activity and watch-and another. Over time your dominant talents will reveal themselves, and you can start to refine them into a powerful strength.

Donald O. Clifton

Couple, Powerful, Track

Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

Gary DeMar

Dark, Practice, Doors

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You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

Andrew Samwick

Smart, Believe, Cutting

"A New Year's Plea". voxbaby.blogspot.ru. January 03, 2007.

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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design, Forget, Lost

Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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