Top 1200 Human Activity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it doesn't feel like I'm working out.

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

There is no physical activity. All entertainment is happening in phone. Films can also be seen in laptop, so no one is visiting cinema halls.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

Worship, the act of freely giving love to God, forms and informs every activity of the Christian's life.

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

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

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Technology's role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher's app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.