Quotes About Activity

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

I like to go out and have fun. I can't stay inside the room as I feel irritated. Even if I am not going to party somewhere, I prefer going out for dinners.

I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.

Jogging is my idea of nothing to do.

I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.

I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.

I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

I don't dig jogging. I've tried, I really have, but I don't get any enjoyment out of jogging.

I started jogging with my dad when I was five years old.

If you live in the States, you have to join a gym.

As much fun as it is gaming, I have so much to do that I've had to get away from them. I still enjoy them. When I go to a friend's house and they have a game on, I'll happily join in and play.

Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.

A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.

War, as we saw in Volume 1, creates incentives for efficient, meritocratic government that ordinary economic activity does not and therefore is one important path to state modernity.

There was little sickness, since the daily lives of the plains Indians kept them in perfect physical condition. Sunrise saw most of the men and boys in the icy streams, winter and summer alike.

If you maintain a robust agenda of activities, if you nurture a rich network of relationships, if you intellectually challenge yourself, if you pay attention to your diet, if you exercise regularly and vigorously, if you latch on to a sense of purpose

Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things).

I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.

But there is a difference between "liturgy" and "worship" in that worship suggests the honor and praise accorded God communally or individually, in the public assembly or in worldly activity, whereas liturgy suggests something that is done communally and publicly, or is at least communal and public in derivation even if it is a ministration extended to those absent from the assembly.

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.