Quotes About Activity

for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

A couple of sportsmen taking their ease.

So the hierarchy of goals is roughly: satisfy hunger; eat; cook; read cookbook; get more light. This is called a root cause analysis: asking "Why?" until the ultimate, fundamental cause of the activity is reached.

The value added by an activity is the difference in the price that an economically rational buyer would pay for a work product before, and after, the activity is performed. The customer is one judge of economic value, but never the sole judge.

Exercise is boring. Everything is boring that does not happen in a chair (reading and writing) or in bed.

To serious readers like him and Paola, reading was an activity, not a pastime, and so the presence of another person added nothing to it.

She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun.

Do you really think what we do is work? - What else should I call it? I should call it the most glorious kind of play.

Excitement may galvanize the Christian's hands into a fitful and spasmodic activity. But there will be no patient continuance in well-doing, no unwearied labour in missionary work at home or abroad, without love.

The most miserable creature on earth is the man who has nothing to do. Work for the hands or work for the mind is absolutely essential to human happiness.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do.

In so much of life and professional activity, the simple strategies and techniques can be the most powerful.

Although a Major League Baseball game lasts for around three hours, there is only around fifteen minutes of actual playing time.

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

You grown-ups are making too much noise! Go play Outside for awhile. February

that a principal "obstacle to writing improvement is our tendency to dwell on either the final results or the mental origins of writing to the exclusion of the activity of writing, as if an empty gap separated writing from thinking.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.

La estructura del Cerebro en su conjunto es una macro distorsión compleja de la Lattice y su actividad distorsiona a la misma Lattice que le da origen.

If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn't forbidden, and they intervene, then it's not the activity that's attracting the attention, it is you yourself.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

La première question politique est de savoir quels objets et quels sujets sont concernés par ces institutions et ces lois, quelles formes de relations définissent proprement une communauté politique, quels objets ces relations concernent, quels sujets sont aptes à désigner ces objets et à en discuter. La politique est l'activité qui reconfigure les cadres sensibles au sein desquels se définissent des objets communs

Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.