Best Activity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Values Given Walking Activity Communicate Architecture Aesthetic Rooted Human Activity Added Value

Author:Thom Mayne

“In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

Thinking Way Want Trying Activity Studios Drawing Efficient Sculpture Casting Repetitive Plasters

Author:Bruce Nauman

“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.”

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Author:Lucas Neff

“I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.”

Thinking Needs Wells Remember Economic Activity Budgets Deficit Budget Deficit

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”

“I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.”

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Author:George Sand

“By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”

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Author:Michael Polanyi

“Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.”

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Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.”

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Author:Rob Portman

“Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.”

Giving Humans Used Race Economic Activity Profit Establishment Ducks Sole Rats Vocabulary Criteria Evaluate Human Society Lame Vogue Rat Race Menagerie

Author:Jimmy Reid

“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.”

Ifs Humans Care Spirit Left Sin Activity Take Care Human Spirit Ugliness

Book:The Meaning of Art

Source: The Meaning of Art

“In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.”

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Author:Albert Speer

“Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.”

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Author:Frederick Sanger

“I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.”

People Thinking Kind Roles Economy Involved Promise Activity Various Crucial I Promise Retail

Author:Lawrence Summers

“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”

People World War Self Humanity Practice Meditation Conditions Buddhism Activity Discovery Self Discovery War Of The Worlds Our World World War Ii World War I Cult Persecuted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.”

Looks Happiness Life Is Forget Watches Fronts Buddhism Activity Mindfulness God Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.”

“Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.”

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Author:Alan Thicke

“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”

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Author:Roberto Unger

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Has Beens Ideas Activity Universal Connected Empresses

Book:The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

“I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Religious Activity Worship Organization Good Work Doing Good Congregation Proselytizing

Author:Jim Wallis

“I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.”

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Author:James Young

“Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.”

World Inspirational Matter Hate Love You Buddhism Activity Stillness What Matters Hate You Overjoyed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.”

Hours Progress Plans Months Activity Perseverance Planning Enthusiasm Organized Perserverance Wellspring

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”

People Activity Bored Contagious Cynic Yawning

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”

Humans Kind Money Knowing Materials Activity Lifetime Species Riches All Kinds Engaged Isolated Material Things Human Species

Book:The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

Source: The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

“The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”

“It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.”

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Author:Kara Lindsay

“Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.”

People Art Film Fun Groups Activity Dressings Dressing Up

Author:Sean Lennon

“Well done is better than well said.”

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Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.”

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Author:Chuck Mangione

“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.”

Home Artist Taken Activity Achievement Happenings Myth Melodrama

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.”

Sex Creativity Activity Dictator Subversive

Author:Erica Jong

“I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.”

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Author:Booker T. Washington

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