Quotes About Activity

As far as physical fitness goes, today's kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren't outside.

Much like an investment broker, the architect is being allowed to play with their client's money, based on the premise that their activity will yield an acceptable return on investment.

Software development is fundamentally a design activity, in that it involves an ongoing process of decision making until the developed system goes into production.

Seeing trumps hearing, but doing trumps seeing!

I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

I mean here to propound a paradox, that people can actively enter into their own passivity.

Hadza men were close to the average, spending more than 4 hours a day hunting—about eighty times as long as an Ngogo chimpanzee.

Horne, J. A., & Minard, A. (1985). 'Sleep and Sleepiness Following a Behaviourally Active Day'. Ergonomics, 28, 567–75.

if you set children to an activity that they enjoy and reward them for doing it, the reward reduces the enjoyment and demotivates them. Within a few seconds you transform play into work.

A grin lit [Christian's] face. "We're going hunting?

Never stop. Truly, never stop. Keep cleaning, cooking, chopping your own wood. Go on walks with the dog. Dig in your garden. We are meant to be busy. Idle hands do the Devil's work.

Life is more fun if you play games.

just like a buzz.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Aleister Crowley knew about this pragmatically, before modern neurology. He taught his pupils to learn to write equally well with both hands, thereby forcing the dormant right brain to spring to activity.

Beta wave activity in the brain correlates with outer-directed activity and dominance of sympathetic nervous system functions. Alpha wave activity, and lower brain frequencies, correlate with inner-directed passivity and dominance of parasympathetic nervous system functions.

When a man's busy, why, leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no better cure than business.

There were dozens of boats and skiers on the water, the powerboats and jet skis buzzing like angry mutant wasps.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. He

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. He