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“When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.”

Years Real Felt Months Terrible Activity Six Years Ago Odd Relief Six Months Physical Activity

Author:James Taylor

“Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.”

Inspirational Kind Today Gone Tomorrow Activity Dance Painter Score Composer Playwright Sculptors Ephemeral Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.”

People Writing Book Reading Fiction Activity Tiny Buying Minorities Fiction Writing

Author:Paul Theroux

“As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.”

Firsts Children Self Helping Father Individual Goal Responsibility Son Activity Self Confidence Priorities My Children Help Me My Son Engaging Personal Goal Individual Strength

Author:Alan Thicke

“Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.”

Sports Creative Activity Selected Squash

Author:Bill Toomey

“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”

People Pain Happiness Joy Levels Brain Terrible Activity Degrees Asking Observation Sublime Electrical Measuring

Author:Polly Toynbee

“Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.”

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.”

Motivational Care Inspiring Education Creativity Creative Design Activity Be Creative Doers Creative Work Creative Art Art And Creativity Ideas And Creativity Inspire Creativity Inspiration And Creativity Artists And Creativity

Book:Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

“Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.”

Home Kids School Fighting Parent Decision Fronts Healthy Battle Activity Critical Nutrition Cafeteria Proper Nutrition

Author:Tom Vilsack

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.”

People Sports Example Activity Blind Leisure Cycling Very Popular Tandem Leisure Activities

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.”

Activity Athlete Singers Opera

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.”

Needs Able Order Levels Activity Highest Athlete Singers Opera Refrain Opera Singers

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”

Men Action Success Individual Practice Thousand Activity Mere One Man Backbone Wishbones

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”

Truth Lying Justice Acting Virtue Activity Injustice Dues

Author:Horace Walpole

“Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.”

Humans Play Shows Body Today Roles Study Modern Exercise Activity Sticks Patient Significant Treated Human Body Modern Life Epidemics Medication Physical Activity Sedentary Incidence Aerobics

Author:Andrew Weil

“Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.”

People Years Humans Long Has Beens Two Talking Changed Activity Behavior Filled Ancient Each Day Amazed Human Behavior Homo Sapiens Downtown Physical Things Tucson

Author:Andrew Weil

“The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.”

Real Easy Common Blood Walking Exercise Offers Activity Benefits Evidence Pressure Including Mood Objections Ratios Blood Pressure Cholesterol

Author:Andrew Weil

“In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.”

Country Care Able America Order Company Vision Economy Pieces Activity Pages Green Bunch Health Care Meals Regulation Green Economy

Author:Jack Welch

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

“I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.”

Kind Together Used Stars Fiction Watches Fans Activity My Family Science Fiction Nerdy

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”

World Humans Real Views Effort Calling Activity Cease Real World Mainstream Environmentalism Environmentalist Human Activity World View Lobbying

Author:E. O. Wilson

“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”

Feels Humans Has Beens Important Able Culture Roles Stage Activity Dancing Musical Ritual Could Have Been

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.”

Morning Activity Add Blogs Blogging Early Morning

Author:Fred Wilson

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

Mind Humans Play Wisdom Humor Funny Brain Creativity Humour Activity Humorous Intelligence Significant Sense Of Humor Human Brain

Author:Edward de Bono

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.”

Knows Persons Christian Christ Know How Mystery Activity Program Silent

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.”

Jesus Christ Religious Activity Jesus Christ Saved Sufficient Repentance True Faith Faith In Jesus Christ Alone

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”

Writing Reading Activity Intellectual Hippie Intellectualism Resigned

Book:A Universal History of Iniquity

Source: A Universal History of Iniquity

“From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.”

Ifs Humans Activity Wander Borders Islands Regions Human Activity Fuzzy Wandering Around

Author:Julian Baggini

“Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.”

Activity Proclaiming Proclaiming The Gospel

Author:David A. Bednar

“One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'”

Home Enjoy Church Talking Leader Calling Activity Members My Favorite Active Visiting Priesthood

Author:David A. Bednar

“A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.”

Use Moving Technology Activity Faithful Entertaining

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.”

Political Challenges Party Enemy Democracy Media Activity Function Murder Corruption Opposition Civil Society Uncovering Opposition Parties Political Enemies

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.”

“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

Philosophy God Religion Brain Activity Intellectual Atheist Cease Dogma

Book:Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.”

“I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.”

Should Trying Kind Running Levels Exercise Activity Cancer Spread Myth Treatment Marathon Cancer Treatment

Author:Jo Brand

“As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.”

Involved Activity Temper Bad Temper

Author:John Irving

“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”

Thinking Eye Spiritual Reading Meditation Written Objects Activity Appeals Visuals Inward Written Word

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”

Writing Book Self Action Reading Acting Effects Acceptance Reader Activity Literacy Writers Reading

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”

Believe Stills Government Running Lasts Purpose Economy Citizens Activity Protect Opposites Primaries Corporations Destructive Injured Outrage Purpose Of Government

Author:Derrick Jensen

“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.”

“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.”

World Humans Mean Reason Earth Moving Goal White Son Activity Worship Hot Missions Human Activity

Author:John Piper

“History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”

Humans Decision Activity Series Worthy Accidents Historian Survived Human Activity Search For Truth

Book:Patriots

Source: Patriots

“I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.”

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”

Activity Delightful Vocabulary Learning New

Book:Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

Source: Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

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