Quotes on activity

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

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John Wooden

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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Albina Fabiani

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... :)

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Criss Jami

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

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Aristotle

Happiness is a state of activity.

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Toba Beta

Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

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Swami Dhyan Giten

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 social relations and the inner silence is like the relationship between the waves on the surface of the ocean and the deep inner silence on the bottom of the ocean.

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Belsebuub

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

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Maureen F. McHugh

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 Nekropolis.I can take the tube to my mistress' house, or I can go by the street where Mardin's house is. I'm tired. I'm ready to go to my little room and relax. Oh, Holy One, I dread the empty evening. Maybe I should go by the street just to fill up time. I have all this empty time in front of me. Tonight and tomorrow and the week after and the next month and all down through the years as I never marry and become a dried-up woman. Evenings spent folding paper. Days cleaning someone else's house. Free afternoons spent shopping a bit, stopping in tea shops because my feet hurt. That is what lives , aren't they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there no meaning?

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Alain de Botton

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

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