Top 1200 Physical 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.

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

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

Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, and it is not a problem any one country can solve on its own.

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.

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

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.

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

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

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

To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.

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

It's wrong to believe that you need a certain physical body type to run. All body types can run. It's not about your legs, muscles, or cellulite. It's not about the physical side of things. If you train your brain, your body will follow. It's that simple. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

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

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

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and "Wow! This is like incredible work!"

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

People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

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

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

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.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Bengal in the early 1930s was a hotbed of anti-British revolutionary activity - and women were at the heart of this insurrectionist moment.

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

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

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

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

People say that Americans trends are transient, but the one activity we never seem to tire of is being outraged. Boy, do we love it!

I'm not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate.

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

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.