Quotes About Activity

If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.

Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than the original program had assumed.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Federal election laws bar candidates from the 'personal use' of campaign donations - a ban meant to stop candidates from buying things unrelated to their runs for office. If a purchase is a result of campaign activity, the government allows it.

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

As a little girl, I could not sit still until my parents told me it was time to go to the gym.

Tennis is my favorite way to unwind, and it's a great family activity.

What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That's me.

I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

I'm literally running up and down stairs all day long. If a constituent comes in to see me, I go downstairs. If a law client comes in, I run up to see him.

I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.

Whether I'm running up and down the field or running errands, I make it a point to ensure that my skin is protected.

I got a pair of roller skates for Christmas when I was 4 or 5 or something, so I had a pair as kid. But I also lived on a gravel road so I wasn't really skating up and down the street.

I don't exercise. I just walk my dogs and run up and down the stairs every day because I've got a big house so you have to do that constantly. That's my exercise. Oh and dancing, I like dancing.

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

I had a really lovely upbringing. I did a lot of skateboarding down country lanes.

My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

He who does not work, will not eat

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.