“There are things that you study, classes you've taken, activities you've done that feel right, that feel like they're in your power zone. So it doesn't take incredible amount of effort for you to do it - it just comes more naturally to you.” FeelsDoneEffortClassStudyTakenAmountActivityIncrediblesZoneFeels Right Author:Robert Greene
“Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point is, as Zen is always saying - and Tibetans understand this also very well - every activity becomes perfect Buddha activity.” WellsMeanLightPerfectAirFeetThousandActivityTibetanElevating Author:Tenzin Palmo
“When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.” MindWholePerfectActivityEgoOneselfCupsRealizationInherentDharmaDualityVery Deep Author:Tenzin Palmo
“The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.” MindRealSpiritualRealizingActivityEnablingSpiritual Power Author:Tenzin Palmo
“You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.” FeelsMayPersonsTermActivityComplexesOneselfSexualityEvolveConfusedFeminineCaptureUsualMasculineTransformingDynamicsPassivity Author:Judith Butler
“If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?” IfsWorldGivingDreamRealityValuesSleepQualityInfluenceActivityAbsenceAccessSuperiorsAwakeExposedInferiorsDiminishOur DreamsBeneficialOutside World Author:Erich Fromm
“In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.” YearsDifferentDreamFacesSawsMetsActivityFiftyDreamerAgain And AgainInfluentialAnalystsDifferent Faces Author:Erich Fromm
“With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.” KnowsForceActivityRelationMurderInstrumentsClintonInternationalChiefsEngagedTortureIllegalCommandersInternational RelationsTransactionsArmed ForcesCommander In ChiefIllegal Activities Author:John R. Allen
“I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.” BelieveHumansActivityAgreeClimateDuesHuman Activity Author:Lisa Murkowski
“I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.” WayBelieveHumansLawEconomyActivityScientistClimateDramaticProposeHuman ActivityPortrayingDramatic Change Author:Marco Rubio
“[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change."” HumansLooksTrumpActivityClintonClimateNotionClimate ChangeLinkedGraphicHuman ActivityCnnProsecuting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].” HumansActivityClintonClimateClimate ChangeBotherLinkedHuman ActivityProsecuting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity linked to climate change when he has gone on record as saying that he doesn't believe it and we're gonna get people out of the EPA who do and we're gonna stop playing games with this. Why would he say it? [Donald Trump] wants to build a bridge with the opposition. This is why you don't see me at Trump Tower going up and down the elevators.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveHumansDoePlayGamesStuffWaitingGoneRecordsExampleTrumpActivityClimateClimate ChangeBridgesOppositionTowersLinkedUp And DownElevatorsHuman ActivityPlaying GamesEpa Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a film called 'Big Jim McClain.'” BigsFilmHouseActivityMembersCreditCommitteesWayne Author:Jay Roach
“The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing.” MindLittlesFactsBodyLinesHealingInformationActivityEatingConnectionsDrinkingApplesLittle ThingsGenesTelephonesOrangeSmall ThingsJuiceMind BodyOne LinePulpTweakOrange JuiceMind Body Connection Author:Deepak Chopra
“My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.” UsedBlackViewsConsciousnessIssuesMomInvolvedActivityMy MomLos AngelesBiblicalFrameworkGet InvolvedPanthersBlack Panther Author:Sho Baraka
“[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.” LongHas BeensArtAttitudeActivityRelatedMy AttitudeShanghai Author:Ai Weiwei
“You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that it's not even worth to do it. It's just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.” WayKindMeanDoeChallengesActivityInstinctCuriosityConvincedTemporaryAmusement Author:Ai Weiwei
“As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.” WritingArtStillsTogetherPracticeActivityCreaturesArchitecturePublishingLiving Creatures Author:Ai Weiwei
“What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.” KnowsWritingTogetherNationsInterestRightsActivityFellowsIslamCivil RightsEveningPostsJournalistArticlesMainstreamSaturdayAlexCollaboratorsHaleyNation Of IslamSaturday Evening Author:Manning Marable
“Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.” ShouldMayUsedIssuesEconomicConditionsExampleActivityCreatingHumanitarianScalesInstanceFormerIslandsNativeJapanAgreementSouthernRootedPreparingVisitingTreatiesCemeteryResidentsVisaLarge ScalePeace TreatiesNative Place Author:Vladimir Putin
“Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.” YearsDifferentNextCitiesEventsActivitySeasonsSeriesJapanNext Year Author:Vladimir Putin
“Then there is another area of activity - economic interaction between Russia and the United States. Right now, for example, it has already been made public that we signed a large deal to privatise one of our biggest oil and gas companies, Rosneft. We know for sure that US companies, as well as Japanese ones, by the way, are keenly interested in cooperation in Russia's oil and gas sector, in joint work. This has immense significance for world energy markets and will directly affect the whole world economy.” KnowsWorldWayWellsMadeStatesWholeEnergyUnitedDealsCompanyUnited StatesEconomyEconomicExampleRight NowActivityAreasOilRussiaWhole WorldGasSignificanceCooperationInteractionImmenseJointsWorld EconomyOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“We believe that we could do a great deal to neutralise regional conflicts. Also, for example, to continue joint activities in space, for peaceful civilian purposes.” BelievePurposeSpaceDealsExampleActivityConflictPeacefulJointsCivilians Author:Vladimir Putin
“If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.” IfsWorldKindDifficultEconomyEconomicAchieveActivityTradeInternationalInterpretationDividedApplicationIsolatedWorld TradeWorld Economy Author:Vladimir Putin
“If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.” IfsHumansLooksStrongForceTreeActivityTenRiversRootsEightCirclesSymbolsRealmsUnconsciousCyclesVoidBlankHuman SocietyWanderers Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.” MenKindFatherReligiousActivityPursuedScholarshipEmulateReligious Life Author:Frank Moore Cross
“It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.” ThinkingWorldLittlesTwoImportantIdeasWarCountryHardStatesMomentsFilmCoursesNationsUnitedUnited StatesHellActivityHatredCompetitionUnionsThat MomentCooperationSovietSoviet UnionGreat LoveFilm SetLove FilmsDissensionRancorLeningrad Author:Sergio Leone
“Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.” PeopleThreeHouseLeftNumbersSecurityCollegeTerribleActivityDecidedOrganizationReportsDestructiveInternalsCommitteesTerrible ThingsCongressmanArson Author:Nat Hentoff
“Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.” HumansWellsMeanLongImportantCountryLawTermForgetRightsEconomicSecurityActivityThirdsHuman RightsStabilityProsperousRule Of LawPillars Author:Kofi Annan
“Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.” CommunityActivityResponsibleCriminalsHarbors Author:Malcolm X
“Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.” PeopleWantInvolvedActivityViolentVietnam Author:Nat Hentoff
“Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.” IfsPersonsHelpingMotivationTeacherEasierExerciseActivityResourcesAvailableFactorsEngagedGood TeacherPersonal Motivation Author:Howard Gardner
“The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.” Has BeensFactsProblemAmericaActivityConflictResourcesSizeDuesRegionsIranAlliesStoppingStirringProxyDissension Author:Barack Obama
“When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.” PeopleWayStillsCountryHelpingStruggleEconomyEconomicActivityFindingsDebtDeficitSpursBack To Work Author:Barack Obama
“I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people.” PeopleWayTechnologySupportActivityResearchCharityAcademicMainstreamProvidingConnectingScholarshipMicrosoftDisconnectedAcademic Research Author:Arfa Karim
“That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And to bring that up as justification for John Lewis questioning the legitimacy of a democratic activity that is - has been around since the beginning of our country is wrong.” YearsMindHas BeensTwoCountryIssuesTrumpActivityDemocraticOur CountryTwo YearsQuestioningJustificationLegitimacy Author:John Lewis
“The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.” ThinkingReasonWholePlansActivityDown AndArguingSolitary Author:Gerard Way
“A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.” KnowsActivitySolo Author:Gerard Way
“Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWritingHas BeensFactsLastsModernHavensInvolvedActivityMachinesCuriousCopiesOld FashionedDomainTypewritersDuplicateProcessors Author:Susan Sontag
“In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.” WayEasyCitizensActivityPolice Author:Edward Snowden
“Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism, whenever you talk about progressive activity, that sort of moves the measure of liberty in human society forward, makes us all enjoy a better standard of liberty, it typically starts out criminal. It typically starts out a little bit shaky, and rather radical. And that's irrational to put yourself up to do that.” NeedsHumansLittlesSometimesMovingBitsEnjoyLibertyPrinciplesActivityLittle BitStandardsCommitmentActivismCriminalsRadicalProgressiveIrrationalHuman SocietyRadicalism Author:Edward Snowden
“I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.” StatesDoneJobsRightsIntegrityActivityCivil RightsFairness Author:Jeff Sessions
“There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.” PeopleBelieveSaidStillsMorningInformationActivityHonestlyChairsSenateConspiracyEvery MorningCommitteesPutinNsaAsylumsDelusional Author:Edward Snowden
“At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done.” DoneGovernmentCasesInformationActivityConcernHarmGenuineTrialsReactionsDamageRevelationsMassiveEmbarrassmentChelseaClassified InformationGenuine Concern Author:Edward Snowden
“I know what it's like to be so distracted by your surroundings and in the moment that it's seemingly impossible to not get caught up in 'em. I know what it's like to feel so much smaller than the activities of your environment that you can't see how not to succumb to 'em. I know what it's like to not be able to focus in class due to real life hunger pangs. I know what it's like to be disruptive just to pass the time and take your mind off what's lacking at home. I know what it's like to be laughed at by your teacher when you tell them what you hope to be in life.” KnowsFeelsMindRealMomentsHomeAbleClassEnvironmentFocusTeacherImpossibleActivityHungerCaughtDuesReal LifeEmsLaughedLackingCaught UpSurroundingsDistractedOur EnvironmentDisruptive Author:T.I.
“Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.” WorldHumansRealProblemAmericaActivityClimateClimate ChangeAround The WorldHuman Activity Author:Bernie Sanders
“97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.” HumansReasonSeeingActivityFundamentalsClimateClimate ChangeHuman Activity Author:Bernie Sanders
“I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life” StatesBlackStudentsInvolvedPeriodsActivityMembersUnionsExtraordinaryStrikesCommitteesSan FranciscoCampus Author:Danny Glover
“We can actually learn from our mistakes and we can actually learn to conditionally structure our activities.” MistakeActivityStructureLearning From Our Mistakes Author:William G. Kline