“I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.” Has BeensShareRocksActivityRemainsJerry Author:Alan Thicke
“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.” Has BeensIdeasActivityUniversalConnectedEmpresses Book:The Pictorial Key to the Tarot Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
“I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.” YearsHas BeensGovernmentPastLordPolicyCoupleActivityAdmirationFrankTheftAmazementVetinari Author:Terry Pratchett
“It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.” Has BeensPlayArtistOpinionCenturyActivity21st Century20th CenturyForecasts Author:Brian Sutton-Smith
“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.” PeopleHumansHas BeensMatterWholeFormFoundCasesCreationActivityCapacityBasesMethodArtisticProductiveConventionsAestheticOriginalityHuman HistoryHuman ActivityInterchange Author:John Zachary Young
“When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.” Has BeensEffortSecurityInvolvedActivityNuclearDespiteIranExhaustedDiplomacyCouncilUnansweredSecurity Council Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.” MindHas BeensArtIdeasAgeSpiritualValuesEconomicActivityDegreesTradeProductionsIntenseRemarkableExceptionRegionsManifestSpiritual ValuesLocality Author:Paul Valery
“The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.” Has BeensRealSeemsIssuesFiveThousandActivityMeaningfulBakingBiscuits Author:Alain de Botton
“It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.” Has BeensProblemSeemsActivitySolutionsResearchPropertyObviousCurious Author:Edwin Land
“At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.” IfsThinkingFeelsHas BeensStatesShowsGrowsWalksLevelsStudyEffectsExerciseActivityStressWineMedicineIllPsychologicalSwimMechanismReverseRatsStressedResearchersDonutsStressed Out Author:John Ratey