Activity Quotes

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Man's most serious activity is play.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.