Activity Quotes

I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Real reading is a lonely activity.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

Peace is perfected activity.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!). -Fang's Blog

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

My favorite activity is to be with my family.

Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.

It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.