Quotes About Activity

Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.

What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It's a stroll, but if you walk in L.A., it's a hike.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I've played a lot of games, and automatically, if I play a lot of games, I feel fitter, much stronger, and good.

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.

There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for the government of the day to legislate laws to deal with such issues. Not for courts to issue advisories and declare criminal what may often be normal economic activity protecting livelihoods.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.

It's a bit of a joke among my friends that, although I'm very busy, active and constantly rushing around all over the place, I've always struggled to fit any 'real' exercise into my life.

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

I don't do anything out of the ordinary. I try to eat healthy and exercise as much as I can, even if it's just a 20-minute run.

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

The moment your kids start crawling, they are exercising. To them, movement is fun and organic... It is adults who have turned daily activity into a mandatory chore.

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

When we grew up, we had YMCAs. Organizations and places where kids went to play.

I stopped doing any organized sports at 10 and started dancing.

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.