“The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.” HumansHappinessDivineSourceActivityContemplationTranscendentHuman ActivityBlessednessSource Of Happiness Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.” MenWayLightCultureUniverseUnderstandingCreativeSourceActivityIntellectual Author:John F. Kennedy
“The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.” PeopleIfsDoeLosesSourceHigherActivityToughEnglandVicesFortyResilient Book:Littlewood's Miscellany Source: Littlewood's Miscellany
“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.” MindBelieveHumansStatesArtistNamesDarkRaceDestinySunFireMysteryCreationPoetSourceActivityEternityCirclesHuman RaceAbstractStreamsHuman MindThinkerMidnightLivelyGloomSweepingUtteranceParablesFuture Destiny Book:Works Source: Works
“Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, release from sorrow, the wealth of monks.” MenMindSoulActionSpiritualMotherPeaceWealthPrayerVirtueProgressTearsSourceWallSorrowActivityConflictDespairSpringDaughterUnionsProtectionInvisibleTemptationReleaseBridgesCrushCommunionAfflictionMonkReconciliationEnlighteningDemonstrationBoundlessCrossingsMother And DaughterSpiritual Gifts Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov
“To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.” ThinkingHas BeensWholeEnergyPayCreativeImpossibleHappenedSourceActivityUglyDestroyedPhenomenonBe CreativeBlockedImpossible Things Author:Rajneesh
“Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.” GivingFeelsHumansIdeasSelfDreamRealityActionValuesProcessLevelsOur LivesSourceActivityLaborRewardsFinalsValuableSelf ConfidenceConversionSelf WorthEaseAnalysisSelf RespectActualityPersonal Values Author:Jim Rohn
“If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.” IfsMenHumansMeanWarEndsGovernmentLyingClearAirFieldsObjectsSourceActivityConflictDefeatPopulationPropagandaSurroundCentreFogDiplomacyOpposingSubjugationHuman WillBlockades Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.” EndsDonePoliticalPurposeEasySourceActivityTasksRemainsAffairCorruptionCorporateCorporationsPrincipalPublic ServiceExpendituresEasy Tasks Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.” TryingYearsWellsDifficultYouthSourceActivityTricksBitterOccupationModestBerriesTrying Everything Author:Martin Munkacsi
“Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an art, related to cooking, instead of a true science. They have their moments, and their sources of legitimate pride. They don't split atoms, as the physicists do. They join them together, and a very praiseworthy activity that is.” ArtWholeMomentsTogetherMistakeWonderfulSourcePrideActivityCookingRelatedChemistryAtomsSplitsPhysicistChemistPraiseworthy Author:Anthony Standen
“We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.” PeoplePoliticalBeliefResponsibilityLibertyRightsSourceActivityProtectIncludingCriminalsTerroristCivil RightsIdeologyInternalsOversightPolitical BeliefsResponsibility To Protect Author:Janet Napolitano