Quotes About Activity

There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria.

It all worked out quite peaceably, because the fells and the lakes were of so much greater interest and significance than any human activity.

Remember, most parents and leaders are … oversaturated with information. overwhelmed with responsibility. overcommitted with activity. If

Il faut bien comprendre qu'il ne s'agit point, dans notre pensée, de déclarer illégitime en elle-même une connaissance quelconque, même inférieure ; ce qui est illégitime, c'est seulement l'abus qui se produit lorsque des choses de ce genre absorbent toute l'activité humaine, ainsi que nous le voyons actuellement.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

It is, right enough," Nan agreed. "He's not the sort of man who can sit there puffing away at his pipe and reading the newspaper. Always has been a goer, my Alf. He'll be a goer until the day he drops dead.

When people say they're frustrated, it's actually a verb. When people say "I have doubts," they've turned the verb into a noun and made it so that it becomes an event or a thing. When people say, "I have frustration," they don't actually have a bucket of frustration. They're in the process of being frustrated. That is an activity. When you turn it back into an activity, you can find out so much more about it.

a defaulting not from prescribed activity but from prescribed being'.

Somebody said to me after Strive that there are three stages to life: youth, middle age, and 'you're looking well'! Sadly, it's probably true. I found myself getting more 'you're looking well' comments than usual after Strive. But the adventures we do as a family help keep me young, and give me another reason to stay fit and healthy.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

be and often is a private sector, for-profit activity. How might someone make a buck and also reduce drunk driving? It took hours in Wisconsin bars talking to young men for Michael Rothschild of the University of Wisconsin School of Business to hone a winning formula. His grand insight? Use limousines.

Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

AI monitored the neural activity and sent auditory and visual cues to steer the trainees toward the targets' prerecorded neural states. In this way, the trainees learned to approximate the patterns of excitation in the targets' brains, and, remarkably, began to report having similar emotions.

When he thundered up the steep staircase [of the institute], two steps at a time, there were few of us younger ones that could keep pace with him. The peace of the library was often broken by a brisk game of pingpong, and I don't remember ever beating Bohr at that game.

was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

instead of finishing up, he'd gone around to the south side and begun to scrape, an activity more in harmony with his mood. It felt far more satisfying to be peeling something away creating ugliness before restoring beauty.

Well, I said. If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.

Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.

You've got a bet," she said. "Let's hear what you've been up to.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.

a group of mostly middle-aged people (Scots, by their pallor) doing tai chi—Jackson didn't get tai chi, it looked okay on television when you saw people doing it in China, but in Scotland it looked, let's face it, arsy.

Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared to be a full-contact, tackle version of ultimate Frizbee. They were playing shirts and skins. Shirts and might-fine-lookin' skins.