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Quotes About Activity

No man is called a lazy man he is not doing anything; rather because his activities do not produce appreciated ends.
~ Unknown
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~ Viggo Mortensen
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
~ Viggo Mortensen
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
~ Vince Carter
the study of theology is the most important human activity.
~ Unknown
Theology is the systematic study and expression of the teachings of Scripture. It defines and interprets all that a person thinks and does. It ranks above all other necessities (Luke 10:42); no other task or discipline approaches it in significance. Therefore, the study of theology is the most important human activity.
~ Unknown
Theological reflection is the most important activity a person can perform.
~ Unknown
So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
without truth, people cannot heal. If we ignore the root cause of our wounds, we will continue to be wounded, even if we heal some of the damage. We might fix what has been harmed. But if we continue doing what caused the harm in the first place, we will simply acquire (or inflict) new wounds because the core activity has not changed.
~ Vinita Hampton Wright
Cracker Barrel's dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the
~ Unknown
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
~ Vita Sackville-West
Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas is activity, expressed as attraction or repulsion; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two. In
~ Vivekananda
that a man must be active in order to pass through activity to perfect calmness. Inactivity
~ Vivekananda
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
~ Voltaire
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
~ Voltaire
Bryan threw the ball to Dad. Dad threw it back. Bryan swung the stick again. He hit the ball! Now we were really playing. The ball sailed toward the fence. I ran after it. The goslings ran after me. And then something amazing happened. Something I had never seen before. Brewster ran. He heaved himself up and lumbered across the yard. He wanted the ball! It hit the fence and bounced off, right at him, and he scooped it up!
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Inspiration to action is the most important ingredient to success in any human activity
~ W. Clement Stone
inspiration to action, know-how, and activity knowledge. They are the keys to the system.
~ W. Clement Stone
All the world's progress in every field of activity has been the result of action by men, and women who experienced inspirational dissatisfaction-never by those who were satisfied
~ W. Clement Stone
The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.
~ W. Clement Stone
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
~ Thom Mayne