Quotes About Activity

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

So fulfil your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

I like to fish. I always go when I'm on holidays in Spain.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Declines in specific industries can never ignite a general depression. Shifts in data will cause increases in activity in one field, declines in another.

Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine.

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do.

Driving is an activity that carries risk, which can be reduced by following the speed limit and wearing a seat belt.

I'm definitely introverted, and I like my own company, and I can keep my head down while I'm going about my day, but then I do have spells of mad hyperactivity.