#activity

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#backbone #individual #man #men #mere

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

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#aggregate #business #contributes #growth #high

You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#aerobic #again #because #breathe #comes

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#activity #body #comes #enjoyment #ever

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#advance #attack #best #center #coming

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. ↗

— Donald Judd

#attention #building #done #how #i