Quotes About Activity

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

in the activity of the senses the authentic foundation of existence.

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens"

The secret of happiness is something to do.

For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you're close to something like that. It's really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.

Reading is good, action is better.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do.

But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.

Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing, he said. All people are good except those who are idle.

In short, Aristotle destroys the soul in order to give it immortality; the immortal soul is pure thought, undefiled with reality, just as Aristotle's God is pure activity, undefiled with action. Let him who can, be comforted with this theology. One wonders sometimes whether this metaphysical eating of one's cake and keeping it is not Aristotle's subtle Way of saving himself from anti-Macedonian hemlock?

If you do not want to commit suicide always have something to do. -Voltaire

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles. Look at Boon. We dont know why.

Trip over the truth. Frey's activity allowed the vestry to discover insights for themselves

A scrum team typically consists of around seven people who work together in short, sustainable bursts of activity called sprints, with plenty of time for review and reflection built in.

Wie man weiß, gibt es ja nichts auf der ganzen Welt, das langweiliger ist, als Sport zu machen, und wenn etwas noch langweiliger ist, dann natürlich Sportlern bei der Ausübung ihrer langweiligen Sportarten zuzusehen.

I like to be busy," she says. "And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don't you?