Top 1200 Human Activity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.

If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.