Quotes About Activity

Cualquier colombiano lo sabe: aquí nada sirve a un propósito público. Aquí sólo existen intereses particulares. El colombiano sólo concibe las relaciones personales, sólo concibe su reducido interés personal o familiar, y a ese único fin subordina toda su actividad pública y privada.

Well, it's sometimes the symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemicoelectrical activity of

The very life-blood of our enterprise.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

I think I need to keep being creative not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it... I think trying to be creative, keeping busy, has a lot to do with keeping you alive.

Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.

In jazz, time is your friend, and when you find your own swing, or the swing time in any group activity, actual time flies, yes. But it's flying to where you want to be. And when you get there, you realize the ride is the destination. That's the joy of swinging.

It appears to me that not only what is done by honourable and virtuous men in the serious transactions of life is worthy of record, but also what they do in their hours of amusement.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

Father, I have wind. This activity centre leaves me jaded. I am colicky.

He started low and remained there, sure that safety embraced felicity on a mattress of obscurity. He knew that vertical activity invited dazzling exposure, and that to seek is to be sucked. He recognized loneliness as the mother of virtues and sat in her lap whenever he could.

The simple act of moving your body will do more for your brain than any riddle, math equation, mystery book, or even thinking itself.

The one variable that clearly stood out above all others was whether or not the mice had a running wheel. It didn't matter if they had things to play with in their cages. The animals that exercised were the ones who had healthier brains and outperformed on the cognitive tests.

our brain's healthy functioning requires regular physical activity despite the passage of time and ills of the aging process.

The more we moved, the fitter our brain became. And even today our brain's healthy functioning requires regular physical activity despite the passage of time and ills of the aging process.

Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.

The best proof of a link between changes in lifestyle and the arrested development of cancer cells is that the more diligently these men had absorbed Dr. Ornish's advice and applied it to their daily lives, the more active their blood was against the cancer cells!

have found harmony in this simple quartet: detoxification of carcinogenic substances, an anticancer diet, adequate physical activity, and a search for emotional peace.

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.