Quotes About Activity

immobility is to the human body what rust is to the classic car.

Activity in human life is the greatest attraction in cities.

workload has become more "bunched," with long periods of inactivity and short bursts of intense activity. Both of these are error-inducing modes of operation.

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof they were busy.

Writing programs (or programming) is a very creative and rewarding activity. You can write programs for many reasons ranging from making your living to solving a difficult data analysis problem to having fun to helping someone else solve a problem.

We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so." Jeff Galloway, running coach

I guess teaching maths at Chandan Classes didn't keep me as fit as when I was the volleyball captain at IIT Delhi.

Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skillful. And best of all, it keeps them off the streets.

There are many who measure what they are doing by what they can report. They go out with garrulity in the morning, and come back with statistics at night.

Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don't let it rot.

Indeed, it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mounting of clichés.

Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.

My weekend plans — to move just enough so no one thinks I'm dead.

Never confuse movement with action.

The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

Sitting is the new smoking.

Sitting kills, moving heals.

Keep the air. Nature says, 'Thou shalt walk, skate, swim, ride, run.' When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes & hats & clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.

The ruling planets for Scorpio are Mars and Pluto. Mars is the planet of outward activity and animal passion. When strong in the chart it can indicate a volatile temper, and also great courage. Pluto is related to will, and intense passion, and has a reputation for ruthlessness. As god of the underworld Pluto brings the deepest compulsions into the light. Its position indicates areas of life that must ultimately become transformed as part of the soul's evolution.

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble.

"I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you."