Quotes About Activity

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

A rolling stone gathers no moss

H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.

If anything has been my salvation as a human being it is this choice of an activity which is, at the deepest level, out of my hands. What a relief! What a blessing! Better still, it had always been a drawback to see life differently from other people. In childhood, it had brought me little but heartache. Now I had stumbled on a profession in which it was an asset. 7 Five Good Scenes At the Royal Court, at any one moment, we had stacks of plays being considered.

Fishing is like watching baseball, he says, in that it takes such total concentration that you shouldn't even be noticing little details like your arms and legs and head and mind and the miles- long strings of questions inside it.

You and I didn't make it close enough to Spring for you to learn this about me, but I've never liked to pick flowers. Blossoming is a sexual activity, and anything engaged in sex, ought, it seems to me, to be left alone.

Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness. He

Thinking is a capacity with a biological basis. It takes effort. It consumes energy—some 20% of the body's total budget goes to supporting brain activity.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

It is a mistake to think of the body as a vessel. It is as active as any mind, as any soul. And the more you give yourself to it, the harder your life will be.

living life instead of just thinking about it.

As kids, we spent our beach time swimming. Then we became teenagers and devoted ourselves to tanning.

I run because if I didn't, I'd be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

the two of us are giving ourselves something to do, citizens henceforth of a world in which desire no longer exists.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Why is a worm so effective? Because it is always moving.

There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do.

She could never simply sit somewhere and let time pass, she had to be learning something.

Then they act and do things accordingly.

the surest motivation I know, the one I feel deepest within myself, and which, when all is said, done, stripped away - as it is at the moment - seems to be at the truth of the matter for a lot of people, to wit: it's something to do. [...] Why did you bake that banana bread? It was something to do. Why did you make a fort in your living room? Well, it's something to do. Why dress the dog as a cat? It's something to do, isn't it? Fills the time.