Quotes About Human Activity

#1. All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Pope John Paul II

#2. After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Every human activity is a tack for killing time,

Thomas Ligotti

#4. If the universe is so bad ... how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

C.S. Lewis

#5. Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. - James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones,

Ash Maurya

#6. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Jacques Ellul

#8. Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except ... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

Phil Klay

#9. Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Norman Mailer

#10. The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young
a human activity which developed late.

Sigmund Freud

#11. Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#12. It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Aristotle.

#13. Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Grace Paley

#14. I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

Primo Levi

#15. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Granger

#16. For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

Simon Critchley

#17. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Thomas Huxley

#18. To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.

Chris Raschka

#19. Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Wendell Berry

#20. Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

Madonna Kolbenschlag

#21. Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.

Pearl Zhu

#22. Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

William Howard Taft

#23. [H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.

David Guterson

#24. Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Jean Vanier

#25. To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.

Martin O'Malley

#26. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Andrei Tarkovsky

#27. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

George W. Bush

#28. Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Jean Piaget

#29. Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

James Ramsey Ullman

#30. Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.

Ian Stewart

#31. To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand ... Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.

Dalai Lama

#32. You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

Philippe Petit

#33. Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

Robert Harris

#34. Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

David Suzuki

#35. Now in many cases - too many cases - the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.

John Dewey

#36. After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.

Brad Shaw

#37. What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.

Clarence Francis

#38. Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#39. If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

Sidney Lanier

#40. Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

#41. All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Brian Swimme

#42. Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Ian Goldin

#43. Is It Frightening To Be Free?"

"You said it."

"You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?"

"Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Terry Pratchett

#44. Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Watts

#45. I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#46. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man's true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. ...

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#47. Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

Pope John Paul II

#48. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.

Michael Crichton

#49. Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Daniel J. Levitin

#50. We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.

Richard Halliburton

#51. Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Paul Erdos

#52. The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#53. It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity. These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by 'surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life' (Lk. 21:34).

John Of Kronstadt

#54. Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Gao Xingjian

#55. Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

Bernie Sanders

#56. You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

Joe Bradley

#57. Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness

Aristotle.

#58. Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

Jimmy Reid

#59. The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity ...

Bernie Sanders

#60. Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

Rick Warren

#61. The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Aristotle.

#62. All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Adolf Hitler

#63. Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

Fred Singer

#64. The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.

Laura Riding

#65. I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

David Shields

#66. Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

Karl Popper

#67. Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.

Gamaliel

#68. It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

John Norman

#69. The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Lev Vygotsky

#70. The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.

Gwynne Dyer

#71. Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Vera John-Steiner

#72. The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity; and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#73. In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

Robert Henri

#74. He who makes God act humanly, declares human activity to be divine[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#75. I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Alan Brien

#76. You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Alan Watts

#77. The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Raheel Farooq

#78. There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#79. For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

Terence McKenna

#80. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Ambrose Bierce

#81. But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

E. O. Wilson

#82. Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Niklaus Wirth

#83. Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

Gustave De Molinari

#84. Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?

Soren Kierkegaard

#85. I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

Erma Bombeck

#86. It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

Ron Silver

#87. Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#88. There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Specter

#89. Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Spiro Kostof

#90. There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Chiang Kai-shek

#91. In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#92. Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

#93. Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

Tim O'Brien

#94. Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.

Philip Kotler

#95. Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

H.L. Mencken

#96. The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

Northrop Frye

#97. Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

Michael Shannon

#98. There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#99. Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Michio Kaku

#100. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset