Quotes about activity

Take only actions that matter some actions have weight but do not occupy space... some occupy space and also have weight! You matter do what matters! Let your dreams count DREAM BIG and be of VALUE…!

One of the main keys to understanding the purpose of your life it is to ask yourself the question “What is an activity that I would do even if I am not paid

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

You are heading towards the top if you raise the bar of your standards inch by inch each hour! There is no quick way to success it comes in installments. Every day's activity is a minor contribution to a heavy pay of success. Don't waste the day!

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

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

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation.

When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not.

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

Some people call street lights 'Crime Lights', as they are associated with an increased level of criminal activity.

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.

Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you’d live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero.

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

The essence of physical education in Naperville 203 is teaching fitness instead of sports. The underlying philosophy is that if physical education class can be used to instruct kids how to monitor and maintain their own health and fitness, then the lessons they learn will serve them for life. And probably a longer and happier life at that. What's being taught, really is a lifestyle. The students are developing healthy habits, skills, and a sense of fun, along with a knowledge of how their bodies

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.

Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.

Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities that do not contribute to your success and you will never regret the path you select!

Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Approaching a police car is a very dangerous activity to engage in.

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right.

The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.

To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her, and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk,—to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating. Wh

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is now

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever becomplete without an honourable and detailed reference to PunditKanhaiya Lal Misra and the multifaceted and many splendoured trailthat he has left behind not only in the field of Law but in almost everyother sphere of noble human activity.

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark roo

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)

Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our whole feeling about life. Namely, this: what does indeed make us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of God; but participation in this, happiness itself, is entirely a "creatural" reality governed

The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go on to accept any activity or event that comes into the world, you must weigh its Values, examine the Virtues, listen to Views and then you give your Verdict. Satan is not wise; he is just crafty!

Happiness is a state of activity.

Your life, your health and your weight are 80% due to what you eat, and 20% due to activity level, sunlight exposure, stress levels and adequate rest.

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

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

If you want your dream to come true, you must do a lot of work.

The Second Koran tells us that the darkness in ourselves is a sinister thing. It waits until we relax, it waits until we reach the most vulnerable moments, and then it snares us. I want to be dutiful. I want to do what I should. But when I go back to the tube, I think of where I am going; to that small house and my empty room. What will I do tonight? Make more paper flowers, more wreaths? I am sick of them. Sick of the Nekro

Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made.

If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn’t receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny

Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money

You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for

Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.

What the hell was that?” he asked no-one in particular. “Did they ram us?”“Uh – negative, sir.” Marnetti offered, reading an instrumental assessment from his display, “It seems we were hit by some kind of pulse wave generated by their jump.”“Their jump? – You mean by arriving they nearly killed us?”Marnetti nodded, continuing, “Range 0.5 kilometers, Captain. Holding steady. No recognized weapons activity.”“Damage report.” He ordered, feeling his way back into his seat, eyes glued to the viewscre

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in.

Destiny is manifested only through action.

Align your activity with your vision. Being consistent and intentional with your daily activities will result in sustainable success.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my consciousness like waves on the surface of the ocean, which made it difficult to see through the waves to the inner silence. It reminded me that we need to develop both the capacity to use the mind when engaged in activity and social relations, and to be able to let go of the activity and to come in contact with the deep inner silence. The relationship between being active in the world and in soci

You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring,…It is a different story.

17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.

Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

There is time for every sacred activity under the sun.

I am such a person who rots without the mental activity.

Creativity & innovation is to events, what the heart & soul is to the living

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions double valour at the hour of need; ``and to the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so.

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.