Quotes About Activity

Flow is engagement on steroids. Flow is that state of being in which time stands still, you're totally engaged in an activity, and the challenge of that particular activity matches up with your skill—so you're neither bored because it's too easy nor anxious because it's too hard.

Squeak sq-squeak sq-squeak: fifty tennis shoes jumping and skipping against the waxed wood floor. Dodgeball. Perfect. It smells like the armpits of Satan in here.

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. —John Ruskin

Where a relatively small proportion of those participating in a given activity create most of the value, it is all but mathematically impossible for them to be left better off by a coerced outcome that averages incomes.

Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain. Eats at it, destroys it. If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens.

They just had to go, to move, to do. That was it.

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

There is one activity which reigns supreme in terms of normalising and optimising neurochemistry – cardiovascular exercise.

The human brain loves exercise.

Krill oil contains a super-potent carotenoid antioxidant called astaxanthin, which appears to have significantly greater free radical scavenging activity than vitamin C and vitamin E.

As I played the venereal game, like Tom Sawyer whitewashing his fence, I found that spectators didn't stay spectators long. If you should feel the urge, there are more brushes in the pail.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

Who must play, cannot play.

While societal thinkers may not overlook the importance of poiesis, or creative activity, neither may they underestimate its danger, for the poietai are the ones most likely to remember what has been forgotten—that society is a species of culture.

the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.

En particular, ningún tipo de actividad debía prohibirse a menos que, al realizar tal actividad, se esté dañando a otros.

commotion and flurry.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

Fueled by his resilience, conviction, and strength of will, Lincoln gradually recovered from his depression. He understood, he told Speed later, that in times of anxiety it is critical to "avoid being idle," that "business and conversation of friends" were necessary to give the mind "rest from that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death.

Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

No," said Harriet, who had been exercising