Quotes About Activity

Ideally, you should choose exercises that you enjoy. Enjoyment encourages adherence; the more you like an activity, the greater chance you'll keep doing it over time. That said, keep an open mind. Try out different activities; you may find that you enjoy an exercise more as time goes on.

There was a swirl of giggles, of "Hello, Ms. Lawson," wet hair, the gentle perfume of both YMCA chlorine and bubble gum, the sound of backpacks being shucked off, of seat belts fastening.

No, sir!" cried Maxson, clearly incensed at the suggestion that he might engage in an activity as effete as reading fiction. "I want you to understand here and now that I do not read novels, no kind of novels!

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

Time spent indoors was time wasted.

She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.

In fact, extensive informal networks are so important that if they do not exist, creating them has to be the focus of activity early in a major leadership initiative.

At the heart of that activity is innovation: the effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise's economic or social potential.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

As my college days draw to a close, I find myself looking forward with beating heart and bright anticipations to what the future holds of activity for me. My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Nay, the desire and will to work is optimism itself.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

There's no wrong or right with fitness. It's whatever you enjoy and whatever you can keep up and keep doing.

I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

I like to play paintball in my back yard.