Quotes About Activity

You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.

For whatever sets in motion societal activity originates in the intimate communal living of families in the same village or hamlet, in the same region or country.

An admonishment of sorts, the gentle warning of one who arrived on an earlier ship: You there! Listen! Independence and resilience. This is what the new immigrant needs. Don't get fooled by all this activity. Don't invoke the superorganism. No, no. One functions alone in America. Begin now.

They're for exercise, I think." "I've heard that," the old man said. "That Americans do pointless labor for fun.

Thirteen thousand nucleotides upstream of the beginning of the lactase gene is a region that controls its activity, and a mutation in that distant control center accounts for the vast majority of milk drinkers.

The surrender of oneself on the Sabbath is not simply a matter of no activity but of opening oneself to the influence of the higher worlds and thereby receiving the strength for all the days of the week that follow.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.

You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It's much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.

I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!

I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

I love grocery shopping. It's one of my favorite things. I don't want to become an ordering-food-online person.

Everything is energy in motion.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

that it is better to have no work to do than to work at nothing.