It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.
I mean, it would be very easy to make an inflammatory statement on what we ought to do on cyber. I don't think that that's productive. But to allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.
When we lead worship we should be looking for the activity of God...our response is also a partaking of the worship that is going on in heaven.
Writing is a real activity conducted in real time.
Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.
Every day, every week, you have another case of Israeli Arabs that are taking part in terrorist activity.
Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
While our social life is taken care of by the social media, fitness is one activity that needs a push.
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.
Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.
We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.
London centre has a wealth of creative activity but there are parts of London where there isn't a cinema or where library provision is quite weak.
As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.
I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.
The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.
People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game.
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
I get bursts of creativity with bursts of physical activity.
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.
My best advice for jet lag is to sleep as much as you can on a plane, no matter what time it is. Then, when you arrive at your destination, do some sort of physical activity.
No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.
I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity, but one time I think I saw - I might have seen - no, I think I did see a ghost.
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