Activity Quotes

Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Enlightenment is a group activity.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?