Quotes of: Active-life Keyword

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

Edward Burtynsky

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

Dylan Moran

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Richard Paul Evans

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

Annie Lennox

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

Gero Miesenbock

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

Ramana Maharshi

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Claude Bernard

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

Andrea Bocelli

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

Ryan Sheckler

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

Eve Ensler

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

Alastair Campbell

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Willis R. Whitney

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Wilfred Owen

And it started out fun. We were chattering enthusiastically, flipping between CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. But as the evening wore on, and the numbers rolled in, it got quieter, and I found myself becoming intensely depressed. Why was I putting myself t...

Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first appreciation is a sense that creation is still going on, that the creative forces are as great and as active to-day as they have eve...

The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

And yet if anything in the world can save you, it is not a convent and not Catholicism, but simply an active interest in your fellow-creatures. When experience and observation have taught us love and charity, we are saved, and life is no longer terri...

The Emigrant

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber ...

How to Be Good

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel while doing it. Then, try to do more of what's rewarding, even if it t...

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life