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Quotes About Activity

Public health recommendations, from the Centers for Disease Control to the American College of Sports Medicine, suggest doing some form of moderate aerobic exercise for thirty minutes at least five days a week.
~ John J. Ratey
so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.
~ John J. Ratey
Exercise Is Medicine," so
~ John J. Ratey
A little is good, and more is better." The best, however, based on everything I've read and seen, would be to do some form of aerobic activity six days a week, for forty-five minutes to an hour. Four of those days should be on the longer side, at moderate intensity, and two on the shorter side, at high intensity.
~ John J. Ratey
physical activity counts as novel experience, at least as far as the brain is concerned.
~ John J. Ratey
Hippocrates, who recommended that all people in a bad mood should go for a walk—and if it did not improve, walk again.
~ John J. Ratey
Exercise is another tool at your disposal, and it's handy because it's something you can prescribe for yourself
~ John J. Ratey
It's about growth versus decay, activity versus inactivity. The body was designed to be pushed, and in pushing our bodies we push our brains too. Learning and memory evolved in concert with the motor functions that allowed our ancestors to track down food, so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.
~ John J. Ratey
The only worthwhile idea is the one on which you take action.
~ John Jantsch
from investigating the German activity there.  The Germans had to be there for some classified reason.  What was that?  It stands to reason and starts to make sense that this trip by our government was of serious national security importance, and was absolutely handled that way.  With all the massive resources used, and
~ John Leonard
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
~ John Lubbock
A comely old man as busy as a bee.
~ John Lyly
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
~ John Mason Good
If enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates, whatever may be happening to thrift; and if enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever thrift may be doing.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Instead of tracking meaningful indicators of deal advancement and tangible sales process results, they only kept track of activity KPIs such as: Number of calls Number of emails sent Number of video introductions Number of POCs
~ John McMahon
One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put
~ John Medina
After years of investigating aging populations, researchers' answer to the question of how much is not much. If all you do is walk several times a week, your brain will benefit. Even
~ John Medina
Nothing was off-limits, nothing was deemed "too adult," and nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
While Mallory fixes the appetizers, Jake goes for a swim
~ Elin Hilderbrand
nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Work was the poor man's blessing. When there was always something to do, something you liked to do and knew at the same time that it was necessary and useful, you could be contented—after a fashion—even when your husband was in the Pacific
~ Elisabeth Ogilvie
As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.
~ Elisabeth Shue
The Mebd was playing a game. If she was breathing, she was playing games.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Katya, Lesa's surviving daughter, surprised the activity on the veranda, her glossy black hair braided off her neck, unhatted in the sun.
~ Elizabeth Bear