Quotes About Activity

Work: Not to rouse pity, not to win sympathy or admiration. Only this: Activity.

Another Q saying uses language from the prophet Isaiah to signal that the activity of Jesus points to a time of deliverance.

But I do see the phrase "kingdom of God" as central to Jesus. As I have argued elsewhere, I see it as a metaphor or symbol with a range of meanings rather than as a concept with a single meaning. In the message and activity of Jesus, its meanings include the following.

I have taken so kindly to idleness that I can't tear myself away from it. So either I amuse myself with books, of which I have a good stock at Antium, or I count the waves - the weather is unsuitable for mackerel fishing... And my sole form of political activity is to hate the rascals, and even that I do without anger.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

It's always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven't heard it. Then you don't have to answer.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

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.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Being in good shape is my lifestyle, and I can't remember a time when I was out of shape. I try to live an active lifestyle and mix up all types of activities like fighting, running and swimming.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.