Quotes of: Active-life Keyword

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

I'm not sexually active. I just sort of lay there and slowly thrust.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

Keys to Drawing

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Reconstruction in Philosophy

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

The Mammoth Hunters

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

Mastery

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Mastery

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Notes from Underground

La fécondité absurde de la femme l'empêchait de participer activement à l'accroissement de ces ressources tandis qu'elle créait indéfiniment de nouveaux besoins.

Le deuxième sexe I

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Lover Unbound

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Lovemaking only really works and is satisfying when each person in the sexual and lovemaking act wants it and actively participates.

A Woman's Pleasure

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

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange a...

Ben Macintyre

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

Daniel Johns

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

Lisa Murkowski

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Samuel Smiles

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Tim Ferriss