(1765 quotes found)
“Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.”
Dale Spender
“I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.”
Brian Eno
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“There are so many tensions involved in any creative activity so when there is a catastrophe you never indicate that you think the end of the world has come. You examine it and say, "Well, this is a fine new catastrophe. Now, what else is important today?"”
Goeran Gentele
“Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”
Paul Goodman
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
William Blake
“Now I begin to feel that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; and that activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”
Rodney Collin
“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Indira Gandhi
“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”
Jacques Ellul
“That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
