#activity

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#activity #asking #brain #degrees #electrical

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. ↗

— John Updike

#activity #any #becomes #better #cares

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. ↗

— Peter Bart

#became #corporations #hollywood #irritant #minor

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena! ↗

— John Davidson

#action #activity #arena #get #going

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#economic #economic activity #given #jobs #level

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#course #education #elementary #exist #grades

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion. ↗

— James W. Black

#analysing #chemistry #course #did #help

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. ↗

— James Ellroy

#am #authority #conservative #criminal #disapprove

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#brain #far #human #human brain #humour