Quotes About Activity

There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.

The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Sometimes I get really lonely. Especially when I'm throwing a Frisbee.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.

Bercelak's kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.