#vigor

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #even #inaction #iron #loses

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#ahead #come #full #go #good

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#distinction #due #extremely #high #high percentage

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#after #answer #because #dreams #everybody

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#compete #contests #each #effectively #example

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#expression #infuse #life #means #music

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#beginning #care #carried #circumstances #consistent

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#entire #everything #expression #fabric #germ

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cleaner #continue #develop #efficient #energy