“Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.” PeopleActionReligionReligiousConsciousnessActivityConsequenceDestination Author:Leo Tolstoy
“[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.” MenValuesActivityAuthorityConsequenceMalesPrestige Author:Margaret Mead
“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.” OpportunityGoalOffersActivityNormalConsequenceIdealsComplexesExtremesTerrorismAccidentsVulnerabilityDestructiveExpensesRealisticCynicalExploitationMinimumInterferenceDisruptionPromptsSusceptibleComplex SystemsRealistic Goals Author:Jurgen Habermas
“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.” KindMadeDoneBitsInterestTheoryActivityDiscoveryConsequenceIncludingComposerIrrelevantComposing Author:George Perle
“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.” WorldYearsWarDoneLastsNamesResultsSupportEnvironmentOur LivesSecurityMilitaryDevelopmentExerciseBattleActivityBenefitsResearchConsequenceDestructionBasesMajorityEnvironmentalPreparationCiviliansOur EnvironmentScrutinyBeing DoneResearch And DevelopmentSupport SystemsJust War Book:Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War
“Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldYearsPayKnownActivityDiseaseBehaviorConsequenceFaultsBurdenSpreadInnocentSexuallyPromiscuitySexually Transmitted DiseasesPersonal Behavior Author:Ron Paul
“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.” IfsMindArtMadeWisdomHandsHopeWishKnowledgeWiseProductsActivityConceptsConsequenceEssenceExperienceComplexesNotionRelatedAbstractLogicalMutualOur ThoughtsSpontaneousAssertion Author:Albert Einstein
“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm” PeopleSufferingValuesCoursesResultsSuccessfulProduceSeriousActivityConsequenceDifficultyHarmCapabilityAccurateCredibilityEfficacySelf EfficacyOverestimateIrreparableAppraisalIrreparable Harm Author:Albert Bandura
“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.” HumansMayActionFormActorsEffortConditionsFashionProduceActivityProjectsConsciousConsequenceFlowFeedbackHuman HistoryEludeUnintended Consequences Author:Anthony Giddens
“I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.” ThinkingWould BePoliticalAmountActivityEvidenceConsequenceFairsUncertaintySuspectsEngagingMilitancy Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
“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.” PastPiecesHappenedHigherActivityPaperConsequenceEnvySellingErasEngagedBuyingImitationFeedingTradingPromotingPercentagesBuying And Selling Author:Charlie Munger
“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.” IfsHumansProblemWaterLevelsFireGrowingSeaPlanetsActivityConsequenceClimateClimate ChangeWaveHeatRisingGasTrendsEmissionsHuman ActivityGreenhousesAvailabilityGreenhouse GasesHeat Wave Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.” WayArtMightFormArtistImaginationHalfDangerousDisciplineActivityConsequencePaintCuriosityMetaphorStringsIdleEquationsClayCravingOther HalfWhimRestlessnessPreoccupationStrangeness Author:Toni Morrison
“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.” PassionThreeConsciousnessActivityDrawsConsequenceSuicideMereRefuseAbsurdAbsurdityInvitationsMy PassionRevoltRules Of Life Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.” TryingYearsLossModernBalanceActivityConsequenceAspectInvestmentFinancialScalesTraditionalGamblingMassiveSheetsBankingLendingRetailCasinosBalance SheetsInvestment Banking Author:Vince Cable
“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.” PeopleWritingWellsBookThreeIndividualNationsSocialLevelsConditionsActivityDegreesCreatingConsequenceAbsenceWell BeingUselessDramaticProportionIsolationInternalsSocial ChangeWriting A BookEpidemicsMania Author:Milan Kundera
“I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.” ThinkingLifeInterestWealthMoneyActivityConsequenceLots Of Money Author:Clive Palmer
“Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.” FeelsTryingMindFirstsHardLife IsPurposeUnderstandingGoalResultsAcceptingActivityEgoConsequenceHarderRelateRelaxRelaxationTenseNo PointBeing There Author:Rajneesh