Quotes About Activity

There is, between our body and other bodies, an arrangement like that of the pieces of glass that compose a kaleidoscopic picture. Our activity goes from an arrangement to a re-arrangement, each time no doubt giving the kaleidoscope a new shake, but not interesting itself in the shake, and seeing only the new picture. Our knowledge of the operation of nature must be exactly symmetrical, therefore, with the interest we take in our own operation.

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

She tied an apron round her and prepared everything with the bustling activity common to young housewives who still find something sexual in the handling of a saucepan.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Recreational Explosives and How to Build Them.

For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight

Former Brewers catcher Jason Kendall referred to batting practice as a "war zone." Others have called it "controlled chaos," a "beehive," or a "sporting symphony." There is so much going on during the session that it's hard for people to understand the activity.

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

When I was a baby, I was on a tennis court every day with my mom and with my brothers, so I would pick up the balls for them when they'd play, and then sometimes I'd play with them, but not very often.

I think in college, sometimes we neglect exercise - I know I did, at least. I think about it now, and I'm like, 'Wow! It would have been so easy if I picked up running in college.'

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

As a wrestler, sometimes I'm fortunate with some free time.

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.

There are some times I'm really busy and other times I'm not, but I prefer to be really busy because I generally don't know what to do with myself when I'm not wrestling or on the road.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Me and Jeffrey Wright were hanging out a lot. We go surfing a fair bit when he's on the West Coast. He's a legend.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to it, comes to be given a kind of arbitrary but persistent importance.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

I always want to be doing something - going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to use up my day. You have a limited time on this planet - try to use as much of it as you can for productive purposes.

All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy

While some more passive forms of leisure, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, are fun in the short term, over time, they don't offer nearly the same happiness as more challenging activities.