Vitality Quotes - Page 16

• Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

  Charles H. Percy

  Wisdom, Pressure, Faces

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• Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  School, College, Symptoms

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

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• Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.

  Emilie Loring

  Color, Giants, Doe

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• Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

  Henry Moore

  Spiritual, Moving, Expression

  Henry Moore (1986). “Henry Moore”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.

  David Simon

  Heart, Joy, Balance

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

  John Hoeven

  Teamwork, Economic, States

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• One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

  Diana Vreeland

  Appreciation, Nice, Thinking

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• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Men, Long

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• Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Loss, Past

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.27, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Support, Requirements

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• Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Good Humor, Symbols

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• No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

  John Milton

  Real, Accomplishment, Technique

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• For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.

  Jacob Needleman

  Book, Teaching, Ideas

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• even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Morning, Spring, Plant Life

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

  Ida Tarbell

  Ambition, Mean, Democratic Ideals

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• My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

  Nancy Astor

  Running, Vigor, Kind

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• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Essence

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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• A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Sadness, Broken

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.115, Random House

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Aquariums, San Francisco

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• It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

  James Dobson

  Unique, Giving, Freshness

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.46, Multnomah

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• Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any
  conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into
  weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the
  ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Weak, Young

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

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• A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.

  Joel Salatin

  Philosophy, Heart, Passion

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