#activity

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #cultural #freedom #order #promoting

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. ↗

— Charles Edison

#any #charles #desire #field #go

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#alive #learn #midst #must #repose

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

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#anyone #associate #behaves #differently #illegal

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#been #deficiency #given #inactivity #instructions

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behind #case #does #field #finished

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#activity #children #games #most #noted

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#highly #i #me #necessary #off

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i