Quotes About Activity

said, getting up and rummaging in the sacks of groceries.

This I have always known - that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.

I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?

I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.

You are looking for a new friend with whom you can do recreational activities.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

It's barely after 11:00 p.m., early by New York standards, so the street is busy.

building and running software systems is a sociotechnical activity, not an assembly line in a factory.

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

The sweatpants and long-sleeved shirt has an ominous ring to Stevie, hinting at activities in wild places where protection would be needed, or maybe at night to go raccoon-poking

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.

they saw him moving among his guests. He walked briskly, in a Morse code pattern of short dashes and brief stops

One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...

Your scientists have done studies with people connected to an EEG brain-scanning device while watching TV; they registered activity in the delta wave frequencies, essentially occupying a highly programmable sleep state while viewing TV.

I pulled on a pair of shorts and did two hundred and fifty Hindu push-ups, five hundred Hindu squats, several minutes of neck bridges, front and back, and a variety of other bodyweight calisthenics and stretches. What you can get done with nothing more than a floor, your bodyweight, and gravity in thirty minutes of nonstop activity would put the fitness equipment industry out of business if people caught on. When

In a recent survey, 93 percent of teenage girls surveyed said that shopping was their favorite activity. Mature women also say they like shopping, but working women say that shopping is a hassle, as do most men.

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

Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

The very language of "daily planning" focuses on the urgent—the "now." While third generation prioritization provides order to activity, it doesn't question the essential importance of the activity in the first place—it doesn't place the activity in the context of principles, personal mission, roles, and goals.

Management, remember, is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right brain activity. It's more of an art; it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived.

You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds.