Best activity & world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People World Years Hard Age Race Rich Saws Wise Middle Kings Activity Jew Wander France Fifty Nevertheless Rude Middle Ages Owing Obstinacy Personification Greediness

Author:George Sand

“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.”

World Firsts Kind Found Activity My Friends Gains Workers Neighbor Paranormal Co Worker Announcing Paranormal Activity

Author:Oren Peli

“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

“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.”

“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

“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.”

“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

“Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.”

World Way Humans Beautiful Literature Imagination Alive Activity Day To Day Spectrum Visiting Human Activity Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Abraham Verghese

“I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.”

People World Want Mean Done Bigs Stuff Activity Intelligent Curiosity Museums Hiking Going Out Big Things Camping Physical Activity Camping Out

Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.”

“Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.”

World Long Made Science Order Walks Path Rich Materials Activity Benefits Findings Discovery Significant Substance Enterprise Ants Laboratory

Author:Bengt I. Samuelsson

“Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.”

World Reality Activity Critical Planes Delirium

Author:Salvador Dali

“The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”

World Self Activity Goodness Elements Eating Drinking Drawing Desirable Transfers Assimilation Eating And Drinking

Author:Alain de Botton

“We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?”

Thinking World Should Problem Realizing Focus Activity Asking Should I Imbalance

Book:The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul

Source: The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul

“We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.”

World Kind Two Different Wealth Economic Amount Activity Increase Former Fishing Live By Hunting Different Kinds Decrease Gleaning

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.”

World Way Change Challenges Powerful Activity Questioning

Author:Dale Spender

“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.”

Thinking World Littles Real Air Car Television Painting Activity Paint Speed Absurd Glorious Real World Squares Sunlight Canvas Animation Motor Fresh Air High Speed Worlds Apart Motor Cars

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”

“Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”

Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

“If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.”

Ifs Thinking World Writing Kind Stills Activity Disappear

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.”

“The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great charities or community activities. It is not our beautiful rituals or their teachings! It is the 'practice of Freemasonry' by the Freemasons. Yet we cannot practice that which we do not know or understand. Thus Masonic education is the foundation for our Fraternity. Brother Carl H. Claudy in The Master's Book says, '.. one thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.”

“These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.”

World Heart Ideas Language Effort Activity Justify Thinker Venture Transforming Inventor Visionaries Entrepreneurial Pragmatic Utopian Venture Capital Elevating Transforming The World

Author:Alain de Botton

“When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write spontaneously out of your limited experience of both the unwritten world and the written world. You're full of naïve exuberance. 'I am a writer!' Rather like the excitement of 'I have a lover!' But working at it nearly every day for fifty years whether it is being the writer or being the lover turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities.”

World Writing Years Humans Ideas Jobs Turns Written Lovers Activity Excitement Fifty Human Activity Unwritten Exuberance

Author:Philip Roth

“When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.”

“Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.”

Men World Attitude Quality Activity Fundamentals Fixed Scope Mental Attitude

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.”

World Past Activity Civilized Residents

Book:Running Wild

Source: Running Wild

“Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.”

World Evil Activity Despair

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”

“Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.”

World Problem Justice Creativity Struggle Alive Possibility Activity Strive Problem Solving I Am Alive

Book:Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?

Source: Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?

“Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.”

World Age Causes Enemy Greater Activity Spread Betray Honorable Strife Foe Careless Saviour Cowardly Stirring Manifold Placid

Book:Biographical and Historical Lectures: Comprising: The Prophet of Horeb, John Bunyan; Macaulay; Wilberforce; The Huguenots

Source: Biographical and Historical Lectures: Comprising: The Prophet of Horeb, John Bunyan; Macaulay; Wilberforce; The Huguenots

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.”

Knows World Doe Facts Wisdom Politics Community Economy Successful Theory Activity Normal Commitment Scientist Aim Fundamentals Assumption Liberalism Puzzles Novelty Subversive

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.”

World Humans Mean Whole Turns Design Fit Activity Tools Tasks Complexes Complicated Complexity Frustration Enjoyable

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.”

People World Feelings Activity Projects Embrace Meaningful My Time Changing The World Balanced Worn Don't Change Worn Out People Don't Change

Book:The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World

Source: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World

“Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.”

People World Feels Book Reading Activity Murder Drinking Yearning Adultery Arson

Author:Edith Pearlman

“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.”

World Needs Self Use Decision Plans Materials Activity Judgment Decided Discrimination Observation Reasoning Faculty Portions Self Control Imitation Deliberate Apes Firmness

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.”

World Long Together Poetry Activity Long Time Poetry Is Maintenance Fragmented

Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.”

World Doe Understanding Activity Sitting All Things Reaching Subtle Allowing

Book:The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

Source: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)

“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”

Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War

“The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.”

“We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is.”

Knows World Kind Desire Wish Judging Activity Evaluate Expressive

Author:Raymond Geuss

“21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.”

World Humans Reality Happens Education Century Development Activity India 21st Century Slogans Human Development Emergence Fountainhead Prominence

Author:Narendra Modi

“Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story.”

Knows World Should Humans Important Whole Stories Able Political Causes Religious Human Beings Issues Economic This World Activity Understood Including Pursue Judgement

Author:Dalai Lama

“Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.”

World Life Is Difficult Violence Activity Instance Heavenly Sweetest Acts Of Love

Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

“There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.”

World Class Fields Activity Institutions Corruption Russia Brutal Mafia World Class

Author:David Remnick

“I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.”

“Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.”

World Together Levels Violence Awareness Activity Raises Impact Around The World Non Violence Decrease Underestimated Save A Life Together We Can Ceasefire

Author:Jeremy Gilley

“For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.”

“Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.”

World Kind Art Sometimes Whole Activity Scientist Whole World

Author:Yoko Ono

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