Top 1200 Physical Activity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

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

The most restorative activity is to get out in nature where the air quality is a little nicer.

There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

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

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.

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

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

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

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

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

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

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

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

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

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

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

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on. Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

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

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

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

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

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

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

Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and that is real beauty. Once it is there, your physical form won't matter much. Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

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

I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.