Quotes About Activity

What, if anything, is active in the brain when someone is not trying to do a task? "It was an unusual question," notes Lieberman, but we should be glad they asked, because it led to a remarkable discovery: the team found that there's a particular set of regions in the brain that consistently activate when you're not attempting to do a cognitive task, and that just as consistently deactivate once you focus your attention on something specific.

serious study, defining it formally as an "activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual's performance.

A little self-reflection, however, makes clear that our brains are hardly ever actually thinking about nothing. Even without a specific task, they tend to remain highly active, with thoughts and ideas flitting by in an ongoing noisy chatter. On further self-reflection, Lieberman realized that this background hum of activity tends to focus on a small number of targets: thoughts about "other people, yourself, or both.

The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit.

the phrases used by Csikszentmihalyi to describe what generates flow include notions of stretching your mind to its limits, concentrating, and losing yourself in an activity—all of which also describe deep work).

Activities that can seem like work actually offer multiple levels of benefits. [...] because it is very different than working on a computer ... it requires problem solving, but in a different way.

claim: "Only thoughts reached by walking have value." To underscore his esteem for walking, Nietzsche also notes: "The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit.

extracting value from information is an activity that's often at odds with busyness, not supported by it.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

It's all happening!

Platforms can bootstrap their networks by issuing a token with an additional value proposition in the network. Users can keep the token and deploy it in the context of the network or sell it for a profit. Either way, employing tokens in a platform usually increases activity.

The mind is not some organ that does the sense-making. That role belongs to the brain. The mind is a product of our sense-making activity. It is what our sense-making postulates when it tries to make sense of itself.

Dream is not so different from deed as many believe," he wrote. "All activity of men begins as dream and later becomes dream once more.

Hofmannsthal once observed that the activity of modern poets "stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were all building on a pyramid, the monstrous residence of a dead king or an unborn god.

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.

He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn—household tasks!

a 'change' is any activity that is physical, logical, or virtual to applications, databases, operating systems, networks, or hardware that could impact services being delivered.

change' is any activity that is physical, logical, or virtual to applications, databases, operating systems, networks, or hardware that could impact services being delivered.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache . . . unless you play golf.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have — if only for self-defense.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.