Quotes About Activity

El hombre ha hecho de la actividad un principio de destrucción más que de creación. Ha convertido la laboriosidad en desgracia, el trabajo en mal y la prisa en maldición. El hombre es una hormiga bestial.

So long as I give myself up to physical exercise, manual labor, I am happy, fulfilled; once I stop, I am seized by dizziness, and I can think of nothing but giving up for good.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.

To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.

For want of exercising in nature's own way the activity bestowed upon women, and yet impelled to spend it in some way or other, Mademoiselle Gamard had acquired the habit of using it in petty intrigues, provincial cabals, and those self-seeking schemes which occupy, sooner or later, the lives of all old maids.

A hobby is a happy medium between a passion and a monomania.

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Just then Rosie skipped down the stairs and across the lobby. Rosie never walked - she tripped or skipped or danced.

Living is about doing, not watching, not waiting.

I chase him around with a bottle of water and an orange all day long.

In case you haven't noticed, the primary occupation of little girls is sitting still. Stop fidgeting, behave yourself, act like a lady, don't, don't don't --that's what little girls hear the most. But my mother never said those words to me. She said Go! Do! Sing!

They need some form of exercise every day but it doesn't have to be at the same time, or for the same length of time, or for the same distance.

If a person is very active, either jogging or walking for miles on a regular basis, then a Collie may be the perfect companion, but the more exercise they are given, the more they will expect, as their stamina levels increase. However, a Border Collie can be just as happy with less strenuous exercise, providing this is balanced with an abundance of quality time with his guardian or within the family unit.

Border Collies are the masters of 'downtime' but if they are always kept on the go they will forget how to switch off. Quiet and calm quality time with your dog is an essential part of forming a bond between you.

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.

Remember that the true pleasures of life consist in the exertion of our own powers. If you were to feast every day upon roasted partridges from off Dresden china, and dip your whiskers in syllabubs and creams, it could never give you such true enjoyment as the commonest food procured by the labor of your own paws.

We live in a world that teaches the importance of ambition, efficiency, expediency, getting things done to produce the quickest results. It does not teach or encourage us to relax and just be where we are. In fact, if we are not crazy active and doing a million different things, we get labeled as lazy or unambitious.

Here I am, 5 o'clock in the morning, stuffing breadcrumbs up a dead bird's butt!

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification of itself.

Our adversaries consider, that an activity which is neither aided by supplies, nor regulated by Government, is an activity destroyed. We think just the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind; ours is in mankind, not in the legislator.

I'm an outdoorsy person. I really enjoy the hiking in L.A.