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Quotes About Activity

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
~ Immanuel Kant
A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
~ John Burroughs
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
~ John Stott
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention to it, might have been the most frightening thing they had seen all day.
~ Neal Stephenson
His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.
~ Neal Stephenson
and so anything you could do that made you norMAL was desirable; and since that could easily be faked, it worked best if it were some activity that would get you killed if you did it wrong.
~ Neal Stephenson
The world of physical objects seemed to have been made solely for the purpose of giving the men around Grandma something to do with their hands; and not, mind you, for any practical reason, but purely so that Grandma could twiddle those men's emotional knobs by reacting to how well or poorly they did it.
~ Neal Stephenson
Have you never done anything for the sheer enjoyment of it? Does a specific result have to emerge from everything you undertake in order for it to have been "fun" for you?
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy.
~ Ned Vizzini
Finally he got up, feeling uncommonly well. It did not occur to him that this was because he had a job to do, for the first time in many months.
~ Nevil Shute
Drummers are like sharks. They have to move all the time or they die.
~ Pat Smear
A kid who moves is a kid who learns.
~ Richard Simmons
If a thing moves, it lives.
~ Twyla Tharp
It is a very different feeling to be in a fat body that is moving a lot to one that hardly moves at all. It feels like love. As simple and as joyful as that.
~ Naomi Alderman
My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.
~ Donna Mills
I'm kind of addicted to moving.
~ Heath Ledger
At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.
~ Billie Jean King
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
~ Warren Cuccurullo
I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.
~ Kenny Chesney
Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.
~ Charles Keating
We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
~ Charles Olson
I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.
~ William Perry
If I am not moving I get bored very easily.
~ Adriana Lima