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Quotes About Activities

The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect.
~ John Dewey
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.
~ John Dewey
Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.
~ Janet Hagberg
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
~ Walter Bagehot
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
~ Abraham Verghese
Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.
~ Chris Guillebeau
Value always involves some kind of reference to the activities of persons.' The process of human life on the earth is not ruled by disembodied values but by the personalities and doings and sayings of unique individual men and women.
~ Edwyn Bevan
We often get into work situations, social commitments, volunteer obligations, sports routines, and other types of activities that complicate our lives. We stay in them far longer than we need to because it looks good on paper, or because it sounds good when we have the opportunity to drop it into conversations, or because in some way it meets our own or someone else's expectations of the kinds of things we think we should be doing.
~ Elaine St. James
Send all fools from the earth to another planet, withing a few seconds all activities of this world will come to an end.
~ Anuj Somany
When a company's policy becomes policing the activities of employees, it catches only petty thieves but its profit goes majorly into the pockets of people probing or looting and not in the bank of the owner.
~ Anuj Somany
The rewards of that productivity give way to a fear of falling behind as an impetus to keep running. Soon enough, the work crowds out relationships and outside activities.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
What activities will you keep? What activities will you evolve and do differently? What activities will you let go of? What new activities will you learn? And to start . . . What will you commit to doing in the next week to evolve into the new you? What will you commit to doing in the next month? What will you commit to doing within six months? In a year, what will be the first fruits to appear as a result of your commitments?
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I like where I lived in Alnwick; I always tell people about it. There's so much to do there, even though it's so small and quaint.
~ Lucy Bronze
I really like living in London. It is a charming city, where everything happens and there is lots to do. There is a very good quality of life here.
~ Willian
I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.
~ Lloyd Dorfman
I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.
~ Kevin Harvick
An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
~ Ben Edwards
I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Growing up, I didn't like basketball. I played football and baseball and ran some track.
~ Robert Parish
I'm not really a gamer.
~ David Duchovny
I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.
~ Akshaye Khanna
I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.
~ Pankaj Kapur
I like to play snooker, golf as well.
~ John Terry