#activity

Science is a self-sufficient activity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#science #self-sufficient

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything. ↗

— Karen Morley

#anything #because #i #typical

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head. ↗

— Roman Payne

#ambition #art #artists #creativity #eating

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. ↗

— William Whewell

#combined #consequence #constantly #constitution #exercise

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attain #because #being #free #highest

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq. ↗

— John Abizaid

#arab #cause #clear #community #effort

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#also #charge #economic #economic activity #going

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#activity #because #been #book #brain

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

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#activity #because #control #immobilized #keeps