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• In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.

  Mother Meera

  Real, Silence, Rhythm

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• Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

  Victoria Moran

  Fun, Exercise, Weight Loss

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• To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Letting Go, Mean, Self

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• When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

  Gary Gygax

  Role Playing, Roles, Leisure

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• Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are  things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on  the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.

  Dov Frohman

  Effort, Leader, Important

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• When we reveal ourselves to our partner and find that this brings healing rather than harm, we make an important discovery - that intimate relationship can provide a sanctuary from the world of facades, a sacred space where we can be ourselves, as we are ...This kind of unmasking - speaking our truth, sharing our inner struggles, and revealing our raw edges - is sacred activity, which allows two souls to meet and touch more deeply.

  John Welwood

  Struggle, Healing, Discovery

  John Welwood (1996). “Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship”, Harpercollins

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• Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death.

  Geneen Roth

  Divorce, Space, People

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• I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.

  Sarah

  Men, Climate, Temperature

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Growth

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Useless

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• My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.

  Travis Kalanick

  Blue, Want, Red

  "Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster" by Andy Kessler, www.wsj.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It's not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Ducks, Differences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mean, Views, Intellectual

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

  Julian Simon

  Mean, People, Imagination

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• It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

  Mark Pagel

  Pride, Groups, Emotion

  Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the way we look in our Facebook photos. As a result, we neglect activities that are truly essential, like spending time with our loved ones, or nurturing our spirit, or taking care of our health.

  Greg McKeown

  Numbers, Car, House

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• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  David Minge

  Teaching, Special, Minnesota

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• Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.

  Laozi

  Heat, Conquer, Stillness

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• The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

  John George Nicolay

  Work Out, Details, Politician

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

  John George Nicolay

  Competition, Rivalry, Produce

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.

  Perry Christie

  Bahamas, Economic, Unprecedented

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• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Responsibility, Thinking, Humanity

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• What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

  David Suzuki

  Important, Groups, Permaculture

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• Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Investment, Applause

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• Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

  Brian Tracy

  Care, Prospecting, Following

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.43, Jaico Publishing House

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