Quotes About Activity

Uncle Joe says they're running around like thirty-year-olds." Claudia looked confused. "Is that supposed to be young?" "To him," I replied.

throw-the-beanbag-in-the-Pilgrim's-mouth.

pin-the-feather-on-the-turkey

I'm going out tonight. With Alex.

All psychoactive drugs modulate the existing neurochemistry of the brain—either by mimicking specific neurotransmitters or by causing the neurotransmitters themselves to be more or less active. Everything that one can experience on a drug is, at some level, an expression of the brain's potential.

To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes required to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.

If you're bored, maybe you're a boring person. With all there is to see and do, there's no excuse for boredom. Get up. Get going. Start a project. Finish a project. Call a friend. Call an enemy. Write something down. Tear something up. Spin something around. Find something true.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The judgments which Johnson passed on books were, in his own time, regarded with superstitious veneration, and, in our time, are generally treated with indiscriminate contempt. They are the judgments of a strong but enslaved understanding. The mind of the critic was hedged round by an uninterrupted fence of prejudices and superstitions. Within his narrow limits, he displayed a vigour and an activity which ought to have enabled him to clear the barrier that confined him.

To ACTIVATE  (A'CTIVATE)   v.a.[from active.]To make active. This word is perhaps used only by the author alleged. As snow and ice, especially being holpen, and their cold activated by nitre or salt, will turn water into ice, and that in a few hours; so it may be, it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer time.Bacon'sNat. History,No 83.

ACTUOSE  (ACTUO'SE)   adj.[from act.]That which hath strong powers of action; a word little used.

The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

Gavin was lying on his bed watching ESPN. He should have something more constructive to do than watch a replay of a soccer game between two European teams. Why wasn't he up and dressed, doing something rather than lazing in bed

Whether "cyberspace" is a real place or not, our experience of electronic space is a "real" experience. By distinguishing the constitution of being as an activity of interface, phenomenology suggests that the status of being is not an absolute condition, but one that changes relative to changes in the experience of the real.

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work. Shay shrugged. Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?

I have not often seen more natural acting than that of these masks. It is such acting as can only be sustained by a remarkably happy talent and long practice. While I am writing this, they are making a tremendous noise on the canal under my window, though it is past midnight. Whether for good or for evil, they are always doing something.

ill-humour resembles indolence: it is natural to us; but if once we have courage to exert ourselves, we find our work run fresh from our hands, and we experience in the activity from which we shrank a real enjoyment.

Ich bin in einer prächtigen Wohnung sogleich faul und untätig. Geringe Wohnung dagegen, wie dieses schlechte Zimmer, worin wir sind, ein wenig unordentlich ordentlich, ein wenig zigeunerhaft, ist für mich das Rechte; es lässt meiner inneren Natur volle Freiheit, tätig zu sein und aus mir selbst zu schaffen.

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia; anzi esso è proprio una specie di pigrizia. Non vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia. Noi vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».

Encourage your present friends to be active so that you can continue to enjoy recreation with them.

Leadership is essentially an other-centred activity not self centred one

dogmatics is that delightful activity in which the Church praises God by ordering its thinking towards the gospel of Christ.