Quotes About Activity

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

You can't really sit around when you're sore. You've got to get up and work all that lactic acid out.

I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.

Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

Things like promoting healthy behaviours, including nutrition and activity, and beginning that at school is so critical. We used to have a healthy eating, healthy action plan, elements of which really were dumped by the last government, so we're trying to rebuild a bit of a program of action in that space.

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

No food is edible, if you don't feel like eatingStanding is incredible, if you hate sitting

The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I'm always surrounded by others, so I won't have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

Becoming fast friends when you're that small is easy, because the only requirement is that the other person likes to play games.

Chance favors those in motion.

The mind grows only through use, and it atrophies through idleness.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing

Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.

My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.

The degree of randomness in such an activity and our ability to isolate the contribution of the individual determine the visibility of the skills content.

The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one's role in them.

thanks to the literature on cognition—that, counter to what everyone believes, not theorizing is an act—that theorizing can correspond to the absence of willed activity, the "default" option.

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.