Quotes About Activity

Like Chuck Close says, 'Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will—through work—bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great 'art idea.

Play more. I feel like people are so serious, and it doesn't take much for people to drop back into the wisdom of a childlike playfulness. If I had to prescribe two things to improve health and happiness in the world, it'd be movement and play. Because you can't really play without moving, so they're intertwined.

Leer, después de una cierta edad, distrae demasiado a la mente de su actividad creativa. Cualquiera que lea demasiado y utilice poco su propio cerebro cae en hábitos de pereza mental.» ALBERT EINSTEIN

If regular exercise could be bottled, it would be a miracle drug.

Am I being productive or just active?

And it turns out there are some pretty simple buttons you can press to give yourself a great day. Start by waking up from a good sleep, eating good food, leaving your phone/newspaper/computer behind, and simply writing down your plan for what will make the day great. Several hours of physical activity, some hard work, a chance to laugh with and help out other people—and you're pretty much there.

Like our Eastern counterpart's, the goal of the Western style of meditation is that of bypassing the critical thinking mind and its processes. But instead of doing so with stillness, it accomplishes the same task with activity and imagery.

Worship is first an identity before it becomes an activity.

But one element of freedom is the choice of associates, and one defense of freedom is the activity of groups to sustain their members. This is why we should engage in activities that are of interest to us, our friends, our families. These need not be expressly political: Václav Havel, the Czech dissident thinker, gave the example of brewing good beer.

Il riposo sì che fa male! Guarda lui, tutto sto tempo che si riposa e come sta male!

As incomprehensible as it may seem, I have somehow spent more than two hundred hours playing Oblivion. I know this because the game keeps a running tally of the total time one has spent with it. I can think of only one personal activity I would be less eager to see audited in this way, and it, too, is a single-player experience. It

It's not what you think that counts, it's what you do.

Apart from exercising, reading and watching movies also keep me occupied.

When we travel as a family, there needs to be a cultural element or sporty, outdoorsy things to keep us occupied.

The last thing I want to do, even in the off-season, is traipse around shops looking for clothes: it's not my thing.

During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.

The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and June.

I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.

I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.

Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.

Golf and fishing. I usually do both at least once a week. The biggest fish I've ever caught was a 36 lb. carp.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

The constant abuse of online activity must stop.