Quotes About Activity

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

my therapist constantly tried to convince me that the networking was a displacement activity to help me avoid dealing with my own emotional issues.

When Mrs. Sardotopolis got home there would be eight other children to take care of. But that was a simple matter. None of them was sick. When the eight children weren't sick they tumbled, shrieked and squealed in the dark hallway or in the street. Anywhere. Mrs. Sardotopolis only listened with half an ear. As long as they made noise they were healthy. So from day to day she listened not for their noise but to hear if any of them grew quiet.

Though the most be players, some must be spectators.

Poetry" is a word for a kind of value no particular poem can realize: the value of persons, the value of human activity beyond the labor/leisure divide, a value before or beyond price. Thus hating poetry can either be a way of negatively expressing poetry as an ideal [or] it can be a defensive rage against the mere suggestion that another world, another measure of value, is possible.

Others began soliciting speech from him, where did you buy those awesome boots, is that a hickey or a bruise, do you still practice martial arts?

If they are awake while everyone else was sleeping, what on earth were they doing?

might result only in banking activity moving out of the United States to foreign financial centers.

Inactivity is death.

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!

Games lubricate the body and mind.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Worry is a form of friction. The task of the expert in life is to run his machine with the maximum of activity and the minimum of friction. If he stops or slows the machine because he cannot otherwise deal with the friction, then life has beaten him.

I'm going to swim as much as possible. I'm in poor shape physically. I've put on weight (as always when I'm tired) and I feel as heavy as a bag of lead.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.