Quotes About Activity

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

The constable had been all wheeling and splattering, distributing more mess than a group of finger-painting toddlers on a Skittles sugar high.

So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different.

I am still tired, and I begin to realize that the cure for tiredness is not rest.

With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.

The free market, in its widest libertarian sense including all un-coerced activity whether trade or gift, can produce perpetually increasing software wealth for everyone.

Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.

The full humanization of man requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.

La raison découle du mélange de la pensée rationnelle et des sentiments. Si les deux fonctions se dissocient, la pensée se détériore en activité intellectuelle schizoïde et les sentiments en passions névrotiques autodestructrices.

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

threatened to bore them. That policy did not make for an active social life.

the rapid increase of wealth permitted the wives of prosperous men to withdraw from productive activity.

shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

But he knew that eventually a patrolman would be by to make sure there weren't deviants in the park doing pretty much what he and Tenner were doing right now, so he began to move faster.

Every night at eight o'clock my parents quietly retired, either to the den or the bedroom, where they would work or read or hang upside down like bats for all I ever knew about them. But not Mr.

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it — really get my heart pounding.

sino en sacrificar (hacer sagrado) todo lo que hacemos y todo lo que somos, en santificar cada acto natural por una reducción de todas las actividades a su principio. Decimos «natural» de forma intencionada para dar a entender que todo lo que es hecho naturalmente puede ser sagrado o profano según nuestro grado de conocimiento, pero que todo lo que no es hecho naturalmente es esencial e irrevocablemente profano.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

But on what can intelligence sharpen its wits, in a country where the climate is soft and existence made easy? Even here, where necessity calls for intellectual activity, nothing is rarer than a person who thinks.