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Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
by John Thorn (Historian, American , born in 1947) keywords: activity, award, claim, define, letting, only, opposed, own, pay, play, players, resembles, their, them, trophies, ultimately , work Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
by Bill Toomey (Athlete, American , born in 1939) keywords: activity, creative, much, once, pretty, rules, same, selected , sport Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.
by Bill Toomey (Athlete, American , born in 1939) keywords: ability, activity, comprises, every, journey, realize, something, start, teach , value It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
by Polly Toynbee (Journalist, English , born in 1946) keywords: accurately, activity, asking, brain, degrees, electrical, happiness, joy, levels, measuring, now, observation, pain, possible, pretty, quantify, sublime, terrible , them Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: activity, any, becomes, better, cares, creative, doer, doing , right Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: activity, any, becomes, better, cares, creative, creativity, doer, doing, merely, name, plus, regular , right I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
by Jim Wallis (Writer, American , born in 1948) keywords: activity, against, because, congregation, discriminate, doing, good, government, organization, religious, should, subsidize, think, work , worship Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: acting, activity, due, injustice, itself, justice, lie, others, rather, renders, tells, than, truth, us , virtue Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
by William Whewell (Philosopher, English , born in 1794) keywords: activity, combined, consequence, constantly, constitution, exercise, experience, fundamental, ideas, independent, mind, origin, particular, result, though , which I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
by Wendell Willkie (Lawyer, American , born in 1892) keywords: activity, administration, beliefs, bureaus, congress, distress, excessive, impertinent, indecent, individuals, investigating, lives, much, noticed, out, past, political, private, searching, their , wartime Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
by E. O. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1929) keywords: activity, calling, cease, come, effort, environmentalist, human, lobbying, mainstream, outside, perhaps, real-world, start, though, time, view , were We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
by Boris Yeltsin (Statesman, Russian , born in 1931) keywords: activity, aware, calling, countries, future, immediate, kind, leaders, put, receiving, shall, states, stop, support, terrorists, these, through, upon, well , which If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
by Xun Zi (Philosopher , Chinese) keywords: activity, fluency, mind, moderate, quickness, rest, sharp, them, tongue, too , your
