Activity Quotes

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.