Activity Quotes

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.

~ Geoff Dyer

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

~ Marty Rubin

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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…!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Thiruvalluvar

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

~ Will Advise

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... :)

~ Albina Fabiani

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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 room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!

~ Tennessee Williams

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 nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!

~ Rémy De Gourmont

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

~ Oli Anderson

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

~ Paulo Coelho

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. What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling life, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined! Yes, just as much good as it would do a man tired of sitting still in a “too easy chair” to take a long walk: and just as natural was the wish to stir, under my circumstances, as it would be under his.

~ Charlotte Brontë

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

~ Moutasem Algharati

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.

~ Munindra Misra

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

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

~ Steven Magee

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

~ Lawrence Lessig

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.

~ Brian Tracy

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.

~ Steven Magee

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 work. Naperville's gym teachers are opening up new vistas for their students by exposing them to such a wide range of activities that they can't help but find something they enjoy. They're getting kids hooked on moving instead of sitting in front of the television.

~ John J. Ratey

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.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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.

~ Steven Magee

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.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Marty Rubin

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

~ Alastair Pilkington

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.

~ Hugh Laurie

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

~ Steven Magee

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

~ Steven Magee

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

~ Tim Fargo

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.

~ Aristotle

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

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi