Quotes about Activity

19 quotes about Activity

I think they find that it calls their status and function much more into question than they can bear... the supposed positivistic basis for their activity is put into question, and their humility is exposed as a self-deception.

Quote by Lester Bangs about activity

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

Quote by John Abizaid about activity

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, ...

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about activity

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about activity

The decline of the overvalued dollar in the 1980s also...

The decline of the overvalued dollar in the 1980s also had no adverse effect on economic activity in the United States.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about activity

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is...

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

Quote by William Godwin about activity

This thing called revolutionary propaganda and activity is something of an art in itself. It has been developed to a high degree in Europe where revolutionary groups have been active for half a century and where Communist revolutionary groups have...

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about activity

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in...

Quote by George Pataki about activity

We have been actively trying to have New York City host...

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

Quote by George Pataki about activity

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.

Quote by Walter Pater about activity

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Quote by Walter Pater about activity

For me, music making is the most joyful activity...

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Quote by Luciano Pavarotti about activity

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about activity

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about activity

The French government is simply fleeing from...

The French government is simply fleeing from responsibility. It is declining to grapple with the violent activity.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about activity

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about activity

After my activities in the youth movement I returned to...

After my activities in the youth movement I returned to the kibbutz, but at that time, the party was already split between young and old.

Quote by Shimon Peres about activity

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Quote by Erich Fromm about activity

Without ideal doesn't exist activity, and without activiy...

Without ideal doesn't exist activity, and without activiy there isn't life.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about activity

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