Quotes About Activity

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

People who cannot find time for recreation are sooner or later to find time for illness.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

The world is full of people running

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

Let's all challenge ourselves today to get up and move a little more.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Recreation Is Essential to Best Work—The time spent in physical exercise is not lost.... A proportionate exercise of all the organs and faculties of the body is essential to the best work of each. When the brain is constantly taxed while the other organs of the living machinery are inactive, there is a loss of strength, physical and mental.

To the dwellers in Eden was committed the care of the garden, "to dress it and to keep it." Their occupation was not wearisome, but pleasant and invigorating. God appointed labor as a blessing to man, to occupy his mind, to strengthen his body, and to develop his faculties. In mental and physical activity Adam found one of the highest pleasures of his holy existence.

The Creator has prepared no place for the stagnating practice of indolence.

Most tasks are not inherently pleasant or unpleasant, but an evaluation imposed on a task carries such a presumption. Virtually any activity can be made into work, and most, if not all, activities can be enjoyable.

entire floor was covered in thick, spongy blue mats like the ones in the gym at school, so you could jump around, fall down, do somersaults — anything! — without getting hurt. David's mom and dad

you again! I knew you'd come back. I've been so bored. Is it time to play again?

There is a purpose of life in the nerd world, which is treating reality as code, and optimizing it. Life becomes a problem-solving activity, and the problem is some sort of lack of optimization.

As long as you're alive, there's always plenty to do. You know John Berryman, the poet? He says people who are bore have no inner resources. Check it out: "Dream song #14.

In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle trips across France, my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end. I think of those days as the most active period of my life.

vremea când o porneam cu bicicleta, luni în È™ir, prin FranÈ›a, cea mai mare pl?cere a mea era s? m? opresc în cimitire de È›ar?, s? m? întind între dou? morminte È™i s? fumez aÈ™a ore întregi. M? gândesc la asta ca la perioada cea mai activ? din viaÈ›a mea.

Ce faceti de dimineata pana seara? Ma indur.

Toda participación en las agitaciones temporales es tiempo perdido y malgasto inútil. […]