Quotes About Activity

Walking is a great way to exercise, and we can find ways to take additional steps each day by parking a car farther away from a destination, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator or escalator, and walking during occasional breaks from sitting at a desk.

It turns out the most powerful way we can turn the tide on chronic disease is something we have been doing for millennia: That is walking.

I'm quite a simple person really; I love pottering about, walking and swimming.

The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.

Actually, I try different kinds of exercise. I do functional training, Zumba, classical dance and walking.

Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In 'Oopiri,' it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.

I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

I was cycling until I was 68. I used to play football, cricket, tennis, table tennis. I was into road walking - heel and toe.

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

I like cycling and swimming and walking everywhere. I'm not going to the gym. I like being outside rather than inside a room.

Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.

I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Walking is easy for most people to adopt into their lifestyle, regardless of their current level of fitness. Plus is convenient and fun!

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.

Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.