Quotes About Activity

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Après ski is my favorite sport.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

Nothing happens until something moves.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

No—the trampling, driving extravert, the one who always feels impelled to Do Something and is never inhibited by doubts or qualms, by sympathy or sensibility.

Certainly not. I do muscular work, because I have muscles; and if I don't use my muscles I shall become a bad-tempered sitting-addict.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.