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Quotes About Activity

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.
~ Michael Pollan
I've remained somewhat active in the public sphere with various things, including the occasional film.
~ Waheeda Rehman
Every sphere of activity has a set of rules. Politics is no different.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.
~ Jerry Hall
I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin.
~ Goldie Hawn
I do spin class at 7 A.M.
~ Ashley Roberts
Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.
~ Ray Lewis
Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.
~ Elaine Stritch
I've spoken to people who have retired once they lost the enjoyment of a long day in the field or going to the gym. If I lose that, it's time to go.
~ James Anderson
The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
~ Boyd K. Packer
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
~ Wilfred Trotter
No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
~ William Osler
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
~ Blaise Pascal
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
~ John Travolta
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
~ John Henry Jowett
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
~ Thomas Merton
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
~ Henry Ford
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
~ William Banting
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
~ Hannah More
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
~ John Lubbock
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
~ Jim Bishop
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy