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Quotes About Activates

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We pray because we're serious about taking back the ground he has sought to take from us.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Because language activates frames, new language is required for new frames. Thinking differently requires speaking differently.
~ George Lakoff
Conservative language activates circuitry for the conservative worldview; progressive language activates circuitry for the progressive worldview.
~ George Lakoff
Uncle Tom's Cabin, then, is activated by what might be called a theological terror, the terror of damnation; and the spirit that breathes in this book, hot, self-righteous, fearful, is not different from that spirit of medieval times which sought to exorcize evil by burning witches; and is not different from that terror which activates a lynch mob.
~ James Baldwin
Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.
~ Ben Affleck
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
~ Gregg Easterbrook
I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position of nothingness. And I think this is true. I don't think I'm anything; I never have thought that. Whatever it is that activates it is a certain kind of energy that goes on. But the effect is ridiculous; it's absurd." --Lincoln Kirstein in "The New Yorker
~ Lincoln Kirstein
The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.
~ Shay Mitchell
We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We
~ Priscilla Shirer