Quotes About Activity

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth;

Una grande passion es el privilegio de quienes no tienen nada que hacer.

He felt that life was changeful, fluid, active, and that to allow it to be stereotyped into any form was death. He saw that people should not be too serious over material, common interests: that to be unpractical was to be a great thing: that one should not bother too much over affairs. The birds didn't, why should man?

Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the facts. And at this point history becomes dangerous, because it disturbs the dust of the past

You smoke too much. You stay up too late at night. You don't get enough exercise. At your age you ought to be playing Rugby football for the old boys of your school.

Excuse me, I must go and putt

In this life, you can choose between two courses. You can either shut yourself up in a country house and stare into tanks, or you can be a dasher with the sex. You can't do both.

Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting

We should pattern our life by a triangular guide: calmness and sweetness are the two sides; the base is happiness. Every day, one should remind himself: I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing my kingdom of activity. Whether one acts quickly or slowly, in solitude or in the busy marts of men, his center should be peaceful, poised

All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit's creative vibratory activity

Now, he can see what he's been trying to do: to bargain with grief. Behind all this frenetic activity there's been the hope that if he keeps his promises there'll be no more pain. But he's beginning to understand that grief doesn't strike bargains. There's no way of avoiding the agony – or even of getting through it faster. It's got him in its claws and it won't let go till he's learnt every lesson it has to teach

To break the worry habit, here is Rule 1: Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

Ocúpese. La persona preocupada debe perderse en la acción si no quiere marchitarse en la desesperación.

Our destiny is to join a tremendously creative team effort, under unimaginably splendid leadership, on an inconceivably vast plane of activity, with ever more comprehensive cycles of productivity and enjoyment.

We sing from this passage, "When we've been there ten thousand years, bright, shining as the sun…." But we should understand that brightness always represents power, energy, and that in the kingdom of our Father we will be active, unimaginably creative.

So prayer is a total activity, incorporating many elements essential to a personal relationship between two persons—persons different from and related to one another as the Father is to his children on earth. But still the heart of prayer is the request.

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

to exercise, great. But we're not going to push you. Until you shift over to a fat- and ketone-burning metabolism and get access to the tank, you're likely to be tired. You should feel your energy level rise as your body adjusts. If you find yourself wanting to go for a walk, go dancing, take a yoga class, or lift weights—we're all for it. But don't make yourself miserable.

Among the main biological changes in happiness is an increased activity in a brain center that inhibits negative feelings and fosters an increase in available energy, and a quieting of those that generate worrisome thought.

They concluded that the brain's default activity—what happens automatically when nothing much else goes on—seems to be mulling over our relationships.18