But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Laurence Housman

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.
Tim Holden

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
Tom Ford

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
Lytton Strachey

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
Barry Commoner

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Bridget Riley

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Marvin Harris

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.
Tim Bishop

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
Luciano Pavarotti

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
James Forrestal

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe