Quotes About Activity

'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

The more important an activity is to your soul's evolution, the more you will feel resistance to it.

But Ecclesiastes tells us, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." God's timing is not the same as ours. His ways are not our ways.

I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone

pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.

Not being a big one for having friends, I had no idea what I was going to do with Aubrey, you know, to entertain him.

As long as art is understood and valued as an "absolute" activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses. So far as the best art defines itself by essentially "priestly" aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence of a relatively passive, never fully initiated, voyeuristic laity which is regularly convoked to watch, listen, read, or hear — and then sent away.

The most precious thing is vitality—not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will+energy+appetite to do what one wants to do+not to be 'sunk' by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

activity. Every cubicle held a desk operative, furtively

Dentro dela há tudo menos silêncio.

Does this mean that even in a deep dreamless sleep, the mind is in some degree active - yet without us being aware of it? Thus the mind is not conscious of the mind? Have we a divided mind, then, or even two? And if it is disturbance that makes a man get up in his sleep and walk, then do the emotions persist even in sleep? But without awareness, this would suggest the emotions are merely a bodily expression like yawning or needing to make water.

Prayer is an activity. It is not a spectator sport. Listening to another pray is not prayer. Commiserating with your misery is not prayer, either. Prayer demands participation in communicating with God. It demands involvement, and the Scriptures marvelously involve us in prayer.

Standing still is always more tiring than walking

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

I always like to keep busy, I always say if you're not injured then you should fight.

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I've never worked out, mate. It doesn't interest me.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

The visionary is a mystic when his vision mediates to him an actuality beyond the reach of the senses. The philosopher is a mystic when he passes beyond thought to the pure apprehension of truth. The active man is a mystic when he knows his actions to be a part of a greater activity.