Quotes About Activity

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office!

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

No se puede pretender que un hombre, o una mujer, esté en actividad permanente. A veces hay que darle un descanso para que pueda entregarse a sus penas.

En muchos casos, por ejemplo, como veremos en Argentina, Colombia y Egipto, este fracaso adopta la forma de falta de actividad económica suficiente, porque los políticos están encantados de extraer recursos o de aplastar cualquier tipo de actividad económica independiente que los amenace a ellos y a las élites económicas.

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles.

these last twenty years is so obviously a result of two entwined products of the digital age—the catastrophic health effects of manic (and largely meaningless) mental activity, and the lack of real purpose.

THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing.

sort of planning activity: (1) those that still have your attention even after you've determined their next actions, and (2) those about which potentially

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

People are not only thinkers, they are doers, so it is not surprising that you can substantially change the way you feel by changing the way you act. There's only one hitch—when you're depressed, you don't feel like doing much.

Does bouncing count? -- Silk, The Belgariad

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Insects all business all the time.