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Quotes About Activity

Well, say, this beats croquet. There's more go about it!
~ Ron Powers
We are evangelical Christians, pleading with other Christians, especially evangelicals, to allow biblical principles to shape all our political activity.
~ Ronald J. Sider
It is a sure sign of a church's internal decay when the sum and substance of its religious activity becomes entwined with political partisanship, especially when loyalty to a political figure is equated with loyalty to God.
~ Ronald J. Sider
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
~ Ronald Reagan
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~ Lucille Ball
It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself
~ Lucille Ball
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
And nothing is more wrong-headed than calling meaning a mental activity! Unless, that is, one is setting out to produce confusion. (It would also be possible to speak of an activity of butter when it rises in price, and if no problems are produced by this it is harmless.)
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.   Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.   A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.   The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear.   Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear. Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Unsere Zivilisation ist durch das Wort Fortschritt charakterisiert. Der Fortschritt ist ihre Form nicht eine ihrer Eigenschaften daß sie fortschrietet. Sie ist typisch aufbauend. Ihre Tätigkeit ist es ein immer komplizierteres Gebilde zu konstruieren. Und auch die Klarheit dient doch nur wieder diesem Zweck und ist nicht Selbstzweck. Mir dagegen ist die Klarheit, die Durchsichtigkeit, Selbstzweck.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life went on whether people participated in it or not
~ Lurlene McDaniel
night. She was taking more of an interest in things and her appetite had improved with the result that she was looking much better. She had persuaded both girls to go out for a walk. It was cold but bright and sunny. 'It will do you both good. You don't
~ Lyn Andrews
a solidão é oficina de ideias, e o espírito deixado a si mesmo, embora no meio da multidão, pode adquirir uma tal ou qual atividade.
~ Machado de Assis
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
What you think is not the point. What you do is what's going to count.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Stefan Collini comments that the "fallacy of accountability" is "the belief that the process of reporting on an activity in the approved form provides some guarantee that something worthwhile has been properly done" (What Are Universities For? 108). The
~ Maggie Berg
Where the state has undertaken to impose a prior authorisation procedure upon a particular activity, a failure so to act which resulted in pollution violating international law would occasion the responsibility of the state.
~ Malcolm N. Shaw
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
~ Isocrates