Activity Quotes
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
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The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
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You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
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Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.
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The only way I coulda gotten out the house was if I had some kind of after-school extracurricular activity — but I wasn’t good at anything.
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Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.
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And so, when two Christians who are both members of the Body of Christ decide to engage into sexual activity then what you are really doing is you are having sex with Jesus. 'If you have done it unto the least of these my brethren then you have done it unto me.' That's gross you are having sex with Jesus.
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Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.
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Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.
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Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Surprisingly, the second group of individuals who tend to be protein malnourished are elite athletes—especially women. Their protein demands are often exceedingly high because of their greater amounts of lean body mass and higher levels of physical activity. These hard-working athletes tend to consume more than enough calories, but they rarely eat adequate levels of protein.
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Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.
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Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.
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Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
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Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
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Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display or deployment of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure or enjoyment. It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown or repudiate or deny the best of thmeselves.
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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I love playing tennis. To me this is not a workout, but a fun extracurricular activity I do with friends so it doesn't feel like I'm working out.
