| "Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better." »John Updike |
| "I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno |
| "The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines." »Henry J. Tillman |
| "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." »John W. Gardner |
| "On CBS Radio the news of his Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial." »Alexander Kendrick |
| "We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'" »James Russell Lowell |
| "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." »Peter Ustinov |
| "activity is the only road to knowledge." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "God must become an activity in our consciousness." »Joel S. Goldsmith |
| "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." »John Updike |
| "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." »H. H. Williams |
| "You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose." »Indira Gandhi |
| "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral." »B. J. Gupta |
| "Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain." »Edward De Bono |
| "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." »Paul Goodman |
| "Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool." »John Mason Good |
| "Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed." »Paulson Frenckner |
| "The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." »Maria Montessori |
| "There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love." »Erich Fromm |
| "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." »Albert Einstein |
| "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else." »Jose Ortega y Gasset |
| "Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty." »Lionel Trilling |
| "Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment." »Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey |
| "Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity." »R. E. Hellmund |
| "Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap." »Jacques Martin Barzun |
| "During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra |
| "If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas." »Harold Abelson |
| "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon." »Maria Montessori |
| "The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man." »Paul Sweezy |
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