Quotes About Activity

IF SOMEONE were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams Ã¢â'¬Â¦ provided I can remember them.

Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

He had worked spasmodically

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

Human activity and hence history may be conveniently subdivided under five captions: political, economic, social, religious, and cultural.

Sudden cardiovascular death also appears to be linked with solar geomagnetic activity.12 Heart-attack rates rise and fall according to solar-cycle activity:

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

Don't we all long to see God at work? His activity around us, in us, and through us is the greatest adventure there is. The God of the universe wants to use you!

Strangely enough, doctors and nurses noted that activity actually prolonged life, when it should have shortened it. Those who lay down and tried to conserve energy often were the ones who trailed off and died first.

Meanwhile there was great activity among the camp followers, those weathered and sinewy women who had seen battle before, even if their position at the rear driving the heavy wagons had usually spared them actual involvement. They fletched arrows, tested bows, put their knives to the whetstone.

One of the quickest ways to discourage a child's budding interest is to take it out of the realm of play and turn it into one more organized activity.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.

She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then, pass the next three or four Boheminanly on the floor in front of the fire, reading Lear, women's magazines, a detective story, Hemingway. Not all at the same time, but bits of all in the same afternoon. She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

as they watched the people. After he left, they changed and jumped in the water for a lazy afternoon

The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised, the subordination of our doing to the dictates of abstract labour, that is, of value, money, profit. It is this abstraction which is, after all, the very existence of the state. If we want to change society, we must stop the subordination of our activity to abstract labour, do something else.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself at this moment of Homer's departure.

Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

The basis of all education is to learn by doing.