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

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at...

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

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… 🙂

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

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

To wander is to be alive.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

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

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...

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...

The word “travel” comes from the Old French word “travail” (or “travailler”), which means “to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience.” (“Travel,” thus, is “a painful and...

We need movement, activity, as much as air and water.

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...

The consideration of the quantity often takes the precedence over that of the quality in many significant activity of the society as the ordinary minds are in the great majority and the extraordinary brains are...

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

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.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

Enttäuschung und Frustration werden […] alle erleben, die sich wie im Märchen danach sehnen, Glück in einem Schlaraffenland zu finden … Nur, dass unser Schlaraffenland nicht ein großer Berg von süßem Brei ist … wir...

In the past three days, the market has added more than 500 points. At least 20% of the price is cream, or speculative activity. All we need is one or two negative indicators or pieces...

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

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Let the ovation be louder when you leave the stage than it was when you climbed it

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

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

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

Don’t mistake activity with achievement.

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!

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.

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

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...

Happiness is a state of activity.

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

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...

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

For a man life is nothing but a task a struggle or you can say a challenge to understand and handle a women or a bunch of them –

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...

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...