Quotes About Activity

The problem that this amount of random activity causes is that it's not just what gets done that is random – what doesn't get done is random too. This means that whether something gets done or not is as much a matter of chance as of rational decision.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

It is a common misconception — pervasive and tenacious, but a misconception nonetheless — that arses are made for sitting on. It seems, instead, they are made for running.

It is therefore not implausible that there is a connection between the rhythm of the body involved in running and the presence of the brain activity involved in higher cognitive functions.

In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

G'bye, I'm going out to play!

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

If you rest, you rust.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The grand essential to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn.