Best activity & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Use School Form Opportunity Students Activity Elements Musical Strings Exposed

Author:Chuck Mangione

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.”

“Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.”

Want Trying Kind I Can Ideas Whole Form Certain Education Painting Masters Activity Structure Leap Composition Inhuman

Author:Philip Guston

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.”

Source: The Sea Around Us

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

“At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.”

Seems Form Painting Activity Embrace Chosen Mediums Artistic Threatened Despised Skillful Andrew

Author:Edward Lucie-Smith

“Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.”

Ifs Needs Doe Made Facts Remember Form Certain Names Involved Promise Activity Eternal Regard Sacred Department Divided Truth Of Life Invited Transactions Presence Of God

Author:William Barclay

“The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.”

Doe Matter Form Energy Brain Information Activity Muscles Materialism Liver Present Day

Book:Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.”

“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.”

“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.”

“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

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”

Light Form Sound Existence Teaching Modern Activity Roots Ancient Mysterious Manifestation Cycles Electricity Evident Rapids Vibrations Recognise Occult Modern Science

Author:Paul Foster Case

“To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Soul Form Spirit Existence Activity Give Me My Soul Incessantly Death Nature

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.”

Government Form Spirit Activity Mass Weight Pretense Free Spirit

Author:Emma Goldman

“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.”

Men Looks Home America Form Asks House Voice Rooms Silence Rights Air Strange Activity Dignity Spread Determined Cruelty Censorship Sheep Committees Caucus

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.”

Kind Government Form Term Common Watches Records Security Activity Illusion Performances Theater Species My Favorite Genre Acknowledge Agency Inspection Government Agencies

Book:How Music Works

Source: How Music Works

“Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.”

Form Company Media Reader Cost Activity Foundation Rely Fund Grants Users Listeners Viewers Fees Donation

Author:Robert G. Picard

“Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is.”

Form Worry Worst Activity Conversations With God

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.”

World Mind Doe Stills Real Eye Form Spirit Simple Teach Path Doors Activity Yoga Breaths Supreme Fearless Perceive Bliss Enjoyment Midst Ceremony Guru Renounce Rite

Author:Kabir

“Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.”

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.”

Art Made Form Used Energy Creation Ready Amount Activity

Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle

“Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.”

Facts Form Games Language Term Activity Prominence

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by.”

“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”

“Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.”

Persons Doe Matter Form Political Politics Social Goal Subjects Activity Workers Dependent Rulers Dependence Beggar Social Worker Fountainhead Bandits

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.”

Reality Form Pay Tvs Couple Activity Entertainment Cents Reality Tv Sidelines

Author:Mike Leigh

“Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.”

Men Giving Persons Government Form Interest Democracy Groups Activity Men And Women Selfish Welfare Free Man Forms Of Government General Welfare Government And Society

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“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

“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.”

Humans May Action Form Actors Effort Conditions Fashion Produce Activity Projects Conscious Consequence Flow Feedback Human History Elude Unintended Consequences

Author:Anthony Giddens

“I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

Thinking Shows Form Artist Values Cities Building Activity Our Society Coherence

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.”

Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

“A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.”

Whole Home Would Be Christian Form Style Activity Majors Impulse Range Officials Initiative Expansion Adopted Apostles Organisation Whole Family

Book:The Formation of Christendom

Source: The Formation of Christendom

“Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.”

Form Creation Activity Conversation Ordinary Jazz Breathing Instantaneous

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.”

Kind May Stills Form Song Language Animal Brain Vision Higher Activity Capacity Organization Primitive Psychics Triggers Dose Catalyst Emergence Enzymes Psilocybin

Author:Terence McKenna

“We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.”

Ifs Form Activity Ill Profit Organized Non Profit

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.”

People Long Made Able Form Term Security Return Offers Activity Investment Rate Permanent Long Term Pleasant Buying Grades Controlled Ownership Nevertheless Conjunctions

Author:Warren Buffett

“As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level.”

Persons Self Action Form Levels Activity Behavior Majors Conscious Concerned Determined

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.”

Made Hands Form Realizing Numbers Activity Creating Models Airplane

Author:Paul Smith

“I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Sometimes Might Form Human Beings Imagine Activity Narrative Great Writers Emulate Surrogates

Author:George Saunders

“The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.”

Ifs Knows Way Ends Form Purpose Community Results Views Common Progress Communication Activity Machines Maximum Cognizant

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.”

States Government Form Political Term Behinds Class Economic Conditions Expression Activity Instruments Exploitation Dominant Domination Discernment Suppression Insufficient

Author:Michel Foucault

“There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.”

People Kind Different Form Political Differences Activity All Kinds Public Service Partisans

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off from the external action at all. For example, the bazaar in which the Sufis were very strong always dominated economic life in Islamic world. They could give a much more sane and Islamic form of activity when the economic life of Islam moved out of the bazaar to new parts of Islamic cities with modernized Muslims, who took it in another light and it became very, very anti Islamic, and much against many of the most profound practices of Islamic societies.”

World Giving Hands Light Action Form Strong Cities Practice Cutting Economic Example Activity Ethics Moved Profound Islam Islamic Very Strong Sane Sufi Bazaars Islamic Society

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.”

Form Desire Reading Opportunity Social Subjects Serious Reader Activity Members Pages Embrace Intense Intimate Halfway Indication Sexually Family Members Entwined

Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.”

Way Art Play Might Form Games Sound Activity Sticks Satisfaction My Way Pins Popping Rpgs

Author:Gary Gygax

“MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”

Knows Mind Matter Facts Form Science Nature Brain Activity Dues Mysterious Chiefs Futility Endeavour

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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