Quotes About Activity

I hate dancing. I'd rather climb trees any day!

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

Even though you were running around and shooting guns, your hair absolutely could not be in disarray. One had to look all neat and tidy while involved in the aerobic activity of saving the galaxy.

One had to look all neat and tidy while involved in the aerobic activity of saving the galaxy.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

With currencies and interest rates far more volatile than the economic activity that they guide, the horizons of investment and commerce had to shrink proportionally with real economic knowledge.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only what could not be seen, watching the seasons cycling past without ever quite belonging to them.

At heart, the mobile concept is about being in control—as a separate and distinct individual. This is the basis of mobilising the concept of communication—that it's an activity undertaken by an individual, over which that individual seeks control. (20)

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

They would sooner be dicing, drinking, and flicking, I don't doubt, but Lord Randyll believes in putting idle men to work.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one—contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.

The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always "on the go."

We recommend 10 to 20 minutes, but even five minutes or just 50 to 100 jumps can be powerful.

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.