Quotes About Activity

What need have we of repose when our minds and bodes come to delight in activity? of consolation, when we have soma? of something immovable, when we have social order?

As flores do campo e as paisagens têm um grave defeito: são gratuitas. O amor à natureza não estimula a atividade de nenhuma fábrica.

Tras aquellas semanas de ocio en Londres, durante las cuales, cuando deseaba algo le bastaba pulsar un botón o girar una manija, fue para él una delicia hacer algo que exigía habilidad y paciencia.

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

Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

It is the inactivity of self-will and ego-centred cleverness that makes possible the activity within the emptied and purified soul of the eternal Suchness. And when eternity is known in the heights within, it is also known in the fullness of experience, outside in the world.

As flores do campo e as paisagens, advertiu, têm um grave-defeito: são gratuitas. O amor à natureza não estimula a atividade de nenhuma fábrica. Decidiu-se que era preciso aboli-lo, pelo menos nas classes baixas;

it was difficult to think what to do, and, as she often did in such circumstances, Mma Ramotswe decided that the best thing to do would be to go shopping.

If you don't have things to keep you busy, you end up starting fights with your neighbours.

I've never played,' said von Igelfeld. 'Nor I,' said Unterholzer. 'Chess, yes. Tennis no.' 'But that's no reason not to play,' von Igelfeld added quickly. 'Tennis, like any activity, can be mastered if one knows the principles behind it. In that respect it must be like language. The understanding of simple rules produces an understanding of a language. What could be simpler?

Were there any idle people left? In the past, there had seemed to be plenty of those, but they had either stopped being idle or had managed to conceal their idleness behind a façade of being busy.

It was an innocent enough activity, after all; like looking at the sky, perhaps, when the sun was going down and had made the clouds copper-red, or looking at a herd of fine cattle moving slowly over the land when rains had brought on the sweet green grass. These were pleasures which the soul needed from time to time, and she would wait for Mma Makutsi until she had examined the shoes from all angles.

To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.

But if you find yourself thinking in the future, if you find yourself actually anticipating the activity-'When can I do this again?'-it is a pretty good sign that you are enjoying it and that one of your talents is in play.

Knowledge consists of the facts and lessons learned. Skills are the steps of an activity. These three-talents, knowledge, and skills-combine to create your strengths.

Satisfactions provide the last clue to talent. As we described in the previous chapter, your strongest synaptic connections are designed so that when you use them, it feels good. Thus, obviously, if it feels good when you perform an activity, chances are that you are using a talent.

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

If current predictions of population growth prove accurate and patterns of human activity on the planet remain unchanged, science and technology may not be able to prevent either irreversible degradation of the environment or continued poverty for much of the world. —ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1992

My days there utterly vibrate with excitement. The work is scintillating," I

Confident, steady, freely-flowing action is what we need. Then safe delight begins. The mind, cleared of its doubts, begins to expand and enjoy its own activity; the rewards of satisfactory action begin to show themselves.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

The bush was alive with excitement.

She could stay out all night without feeling the least bit tired, but when she first awoke she felt like a slug. And

When you have to do an activity consciously, you are slow and inefficient. Unconscious subroutines programmed in are just the opposite, fast and efficient. But in many cases, learned activities that become part of your unconscious wiring can no longer be accessed by your conscious mind.