Quotes About Activity

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

Sometimes it doesn't matter "what you're doing?", the thing only matter is "At least you're doing something than doing nothing

I hope you're golfing today.

Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.

Nothing happens without action!

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Henry's daily and continuous flow of life, his sexual activity, his talks with everyone, his café life, his conversations with people in the street, which I once considered an interruption to writing, I now believe to be a quality which distinguishes him from other writers. He never writes in cold blood: he is always writing in white heat.

You like feeling lost. You enjoy being baffled. It gives you a false sense of mental energy, activity.

There is no doubt that the act of creation is very similar to the act of dreaming. The difference is that it includes an activity which has been difficult to analyze. It is not only the power to summon an image, but the power to compose with this image. The second faculty, the faculty of active creation, is what is missing from the use of drugs. Drugs induce passivity. Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.

can thinking and feeling emerge from patterns of activity in different sorts of substrate – organic, electronic, or otherwise?

In short, can thinking and feeling emerge from patterns of activity in different sorts of substrate – organic, electronic, or otherwise?

You get motivated by doing things, not thinking about them.

A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.

Physical activity engages our brains in ways that mere thought or contemplation does not—indeed, there is reason to believe there is no such thing as "mere thought." All human thought requires embodiment, and without bodies we could not think. We can have a faint idea or hunch in our mind, but it is only when we speak or write it that it becomes clear, not just to others but to ourselves as well.

good shoveling—and then I walk

Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.