#activity

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#concentrate #defeat #enter #every #giving

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#economic #economic activity #environment #i #i think

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. ↗

— George Porter

#coffee #given #happiness #honour #indeed

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american #create #crisis #economy #entrepreneurial

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#auditioned #back #because #center #come

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family. ↗

— Peter Steele

#activity #cannot #certainly #controlled #course

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection. ↗

— Plato

#physical-activity #education