Best activity & engaged Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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)

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.”

Men Purpose Found Interest Accepting Conditions Activity Slavery Slave Defined Engaged Plato Personal Interest

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.”

Ifs Feelings Form Artist Fit Activity Conscious Stronger Prepared Engaged Sincere Moderates Corresponding Being Sincere

Author:Herbert Read

“Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.”

Humans Literature Moral Duty Reader Activity Mass Concern Remains Critics Engaged Ethical Indispensable Human Activity Volition Busybodies

Author:Gao Xingjian

“I hate it when my hair is engaged in unauthorized activities.”

Hate Hair Activity I Hate Engaged

Author:Paula Poundstone

“Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.”

Feminism Activity Engaged Verbs

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.”

Poor Audience Activity Ugly Heavy Novelists Engaged Pens Tribes Hearted Circulation Rosy Complexion Heavy Hearted

Author:Jane Gardam

“Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.”

Problem Heaven Dangerous Activity Terrorist Engaged Senate Inaction Terrorist Attacks

Author:Barack Obama

“If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging.”

People Ifs Feels Care Causes Enjoy Activity Agree Brave Very Good Spending Engaged Cheer Solidarity Engaging Behalf Advancing If You Care

Author:Barney Frank

“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.”

Source: Selected Writings

“I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.”

Knows Activity Engaged Right Time Right Place

Author:Leonard Orr

“I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.”

Social Activity Mood Engaged Interpretation

Author:Hugh Hendry

“If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.”

Ifs Should Law Force Activity Accounts Engaged Unlawful

Author:Tim Soutphommasane

“We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.”

Past Pieces Happened Higher Activity Paper Consequence Envy Selling Eras Engaged Buying Imitation Feeding Trading Promoting Percentages Buying And Selling

Author:Charlie Munger

“My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.”

Ifs Believe Whole Home Order Father Christ Grace One Thing Style Type Activity Claims Following Whole Life Engaged Have Faith Fellowship Arranging

Author:Dallas Willard

“I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.”

People Thinking Want Challenges Effects Gay Activity Engaged Destructive Closets Behalf Want U Unwilling Gay People Advocating Anti Gay

Author:Christopher Rice

“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.”

Knows Force Activity Relation Murder Instruments Clinton International Chiefs Engaged Torture Illegal Commanders International Relations Transactions Armed Forces Commander In Chief Illegal Activities

Author:John R. Allen

“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.”

Ifs Persons Helping Motivation Teacher Easier Exercise Activity Resources Available Factors Engaged Good Teacher Personal Motivation

Author:Howard Gardner

“For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.”

“Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.”

Activity Limits Boundaries Engaged Engagement Physical Activity

Author:Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.”

Action Sweet Activity Satisfaction Engaged Meant To Be Tire Were Meant To Be

Author:Gary Zukav

“Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.”

Thinking Men Looks Matter Activity Suicide Cooking Boxes Various Drawing Engaged Holiday Baking Tissues Likelihood Ovens Racks Glare Liz Snowman Gingerbread

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.”

People Looks Feelings Space Activity Vampire Engaged Justify Compelled Obliged

Book:Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.”

Feels States Hours Activity Flow Bored Engaged Anxious Noticing Optimal Adequacy

Author:Susan Cain

“Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.”

People Philosophy Freedom Activity Trade International Prosperity Engaged Protected Restriction Compatible Free Trade Quota International Peace Tariffs Protectionism

Author:Walter Block

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