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Quotes About Activity

Stories and their meaning will be learned best by children if they actively experience them.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
We, as citizens of a supposedly free country, should not permit our government to restrict any information that protects criminal activity under the guise of National Security.
~ Cathy O'Brien
I've inherited a core belief, to wit: don't rely on some other sod for your emotional sustenance. Find something absorbing to do—something so absorbing that you don't have time to dwell on the woe-is-me stuff.
~ Geraldine Brooks
And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo, He comes to brood and sit.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)
~ German proverb
La tartaruga lunghissima nelle sue operazioni ha lunghissima vita. Così tutto è proporzionato nella natura, e la pigrizia della tartaruga di cui si potrebbe accusar la natura non è veramente pigrizia assoluta cioè considerata nella tartaruga ma rispettiva.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I always have something going on.
~ Gilbert Arenas
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
~ Giraldus Cambrensis
you are probably at your ideal weight when you are not trying to do anything to control your weight, but are eating a relatively low-fat, fiber-rich diet abundant in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and being physically active.
~ Glenn A. Gaesser
For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other Internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been engaged in precisely the activity that the United States accused the Chinese of doing.
~ Glenn Greenwald
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity
~ Goethe
Du reste je déteste tout ce qui ne fait que m'instruire, sans augmenter mon activité ou l'animer directement.
~ Goethe
From early on I have suspected that the so important-sounding task "Know thyself" is a ruse of a cabal of priests. They are trying to seduce man from activity in the outside world, to distract him with impossible demands; they seek to draw him into a false inner contemplation. Man only knows himself insofar as he knows the world - the world which he only comes to know in himself and himself only in it.
~ Goethe
Thinking is a brain activity. Knowing is a gut feeling. Thinking is movement. Knowing is stillness. Thinking takes time. Knowing is now.
~ Gordana Biernat
The three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to. Think about it.
~ Gordon Livingston
The three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
~ Gordon Livingston
We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.
~ Gordon Livingston
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
~ Gordon Ramsay
The best cure for boredom is hard work.
~ Proverb
The day is past when women want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. They like to get out and do things.
~ Mary Solaro, 1969
The truth is, that the craving for exercise is a part of healthy human nature.
~ E. Warre, 1884