Quotes About Activity

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

When you create a nucleus of activity and it starts gaining steam, what you want to do in business is you want to create as many streams or legs out of that nucleus as possible.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

I used to play football on the streets, kicking breadfruits or oranges.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That's how I learned the game.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

I believe dancing is the best stress reliever.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.

It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress.

Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day.

You can make me work for 14 hours at a stretch, but don't make me sit.

I don't really like doing a lot of stretching anyway. I'd much rather bowl than sit and do the warm-ups.

'Strictly' has taught me that activity outside work is good for my mental health.

We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Physical activity - even if you don't lose an ounce, you'll live longer, feel healthier and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. It's the closest thing we have to a wonder drug.