Quotes About Activity

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invisible companion. ... I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning, I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

But is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow—the surest antidote for despair?

I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.

clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.

While governing is a full-time, continuous activity, demotic politics is inevitably episodic, born of necessity, improvisational rather than institutionalized

Don't you two girls have something better to do, like pick out toe lint? (Acheron)

Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

Life for me is about movement.

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.