Quotes About Activity

Her social media activity wasn't great in this life, which was always a promising sign.

The art of swimming – she supposed like any art – was about purity. The more focused you were on the activity, the less focused you were on everything else. You kind of stopped being you and became the thing you were doing.

I was not really used to weather you had to think about. But this was England, a part of Earth where thinking about the weather was the chief human activity.

But this was England, a part of Earth where thinking about the weather was the chief human activity.

Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.

The wheels of life Stand never idle, but go always round. - To the Duke of Wellington

And the Trumpified Right had far greater confidence in the ability of the state to coordinate activity and attain its desired outcomes. The basis of this faith was unclear.

The fundamental difference between pleasure and satisfaction is that pleasure cannot be sustained beyond the activity producing it.

Stimulants are remedies that increase activity, function, and energy in the tissues and cells of the body.

Pleasure is exhausted by usage, like a candle consuming itself. It is almost always linked to an activity and naturally leads to boredom by dint of being repeated.

In every sphere of human activity there are sources of inspiration whose perfection, far from discouraging us, in fact whets our enthusiasm by holding out an admirable vision of that to which we aspire.

Bees will not work except in darkness; Thought will not work except in Silence; neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.

This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.

one of the most strenuous centres of human industry and activity and the cradle of our great liberties. Such as it was yesterday—alas, that I cannot say, such as it is to-day!—this square, with the enormous but unspeakably harmonious mass of those market-buildings, at once powerful and graceful, wild, gloomy, proud, yet genial, was one of the most wonderful and perfect spectacles that could be seen in any town on this old earth of ours.

What's a level? It's a typical activity, it's the universal context of an action in the world. Perceptual consciousness often consists in noticing divergence in relation to a level, and this divergence is the sense which is thus configuration or structure. This sense is less possessed than it is practiced: perhaps it can't be defined, but every aberrant fact is lived as deviation in relation to it. Thus perception adjusts imperfect circles, goes toward good forms.

Individuals with apraxia show us through its absence an activity that is present in everyone, albeit scarcely visible, that constructs 'virtual space,' a system of correspondences between properties of my actual field and what these properties would be for me situated elsewhere or for another.

In a body activity like language, there is a blind logic, laws of equilibrium that are observed by the community of speaking subjects without any of them being conscious of it.

We inherit powers which are not immediately ours. I record the results of an activity of which I am not a part.

Beneath Cartesian nature, which theoretical activity sooner or later constructs, there emerges an anterior stratum, which is never suppressed, and which demands justification once the development of knowledge reveals the gaps in Cartesian science

Philosophy turns towards the anonymous symbolic activity from which we emerge, and towards the personal discourse which develops in us, and which, indeed, we are.

There is passivity right there in activity...And there is activity right there in passivity.

The commandment of the Second Technique is: Go where events flow fastest. Surround yourself with a churning mass of people and things happening.