A Quotes
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“Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.”
“Activities are essential for productivity, but not all activities are productive.”
Source: Quantraz
“Activities of capital markets do not create or abolish money; governments do.”
“Activities of daily living utilize energy and are in themselves, exercise. These activities may constitute an optimum amount of exercise for some patients or an excessive amount of exercise for others while for some patients, adding a suitable exercise program (exercise therapy) can improve function and quality of life.”
“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome at a later time. However, it must be said in the most unambiguous terms that this is not real Zen. To follow the Dharma involves a complete reorientation of one's life in such a way that one's activities are manifestations of, and are filled with, a deeper meaning. If it were not otherwise, and merely sitting in zazen were enough, every frog in the pond would be enlightened, as one Zen master said. Dōgen Zenji himself said that one must practice Zen with the attitude of a person trying to extinguish a fire in his hair. That is, Zen must be practiced with an attitude of single-minded urgency.”
Source: How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
“Activities such as helping with homework, attending school events, and communicating with teachers show children that their parents value education, increasing their commitment to learning.”
“Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.”
“Activities will include, pretending to help in the kitchen, watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and saying you're so full you're gonna throw up and then waiting ten minutes and getting more pie. Once the sun has been down for a couple of hours the Christmas season is technically upon us, so it's time for the first Harry Potter marathon of the year. Starting with film number three, because obviously, and ending with film five when the filthy casuals are allowed to go home. The hardcores can sleep at my place and in the morning we'll finish six, seven, and seven but where stuff happens. Pumpkin pie for breakfast.”
Source: Scrappy Little Nobody
“Activity alone doesn’t get the job done nor relieve your stress. You need to take the right action.”
Source: Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified
“Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.”
“Activity and creativity are, by and large, good for man’s soul. But remember that you don’t have to do something every single day, to be busy every single second. Not even meditation or the like. Sometimes your inner self just wants to sit, to breathe, to enjoy; to beautifully exist. Because by beautifully existing, you have already done more than enough!”
“Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.”
“Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.”
Source: Celebrating Silence
“Activity and sadness are incompatible.”
“Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.”
“Activity creates noise. Assets create freedom.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“Activity does not necessarily equal progress.”
“Activity does not necessarily mean life.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“Activity, effort, achievement, or service outside a hierarchical relationship and unmeasured by professional standards, threatens a commodity-intensive society.”
Source: The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
“Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.”
“Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.”
“Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.”
Source: A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition
“Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.”
Source: Master of the Vineyard
“Activity is contagious.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851
“Activity is intelligence. We follow our information systems and we use our energy to get it done. And that's caused by a byproduct called matter. That's why I call it "energetic matter." And it's chemical matter. We are chemistry.”
“Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.”
Source: Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom
“Activity is not output.”
“Activity is the enemy of investment returns.”
“Activity is the only road to knowledge.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Activity leads to productivity!”
“Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.”
“Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.”
“Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.”
“Activity without advancement is just motion- and motion burns money, time, and morale.”
Source: Paralyzed by Planning: How Businesses Waste Millions Before They Even Begin
“Activity without purpose is the drain of your life”
“Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.”
“Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.”
“Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like a team reunion at Red Lobster. They were a great bunch of guys and we accomplished a lot together. That's something you don't forget.”
“Actor of the low IQ, let's hear your view.”
“Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.”
Source: The End of Acting: A Radical View
“Actor's life is very long.”
“Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?”
“Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.”
“Actors always direct themselves. A good actor shows up onset ready, especially in television, and you've done your homework and you know your character. The director may have some variation on what you're thinking or they may have a different interpretation of the scene. So you come prepared to shoot and you've given yourself notes. In television, it may be the first time you're meeting this director and you've been living in this character's skin for a couple of years. It's always great to have fresh perspective and fresh insight, but no one knows your character better than you do.”
“Actors always have opinions.”
“Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.”
“Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.”
“Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.”
“Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'”