Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.
All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
The modern moralists extol. . . the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Peace is perfected activity.
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.