“Some people call street lights ‘Crime Lights’, as they are associated with an increased level of criminal activity.”— Steven Magee
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
“Time may be defined as ” dimension governed by activity.” Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.”— Moutasem Algharati
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”— Edwin Powell Hubble
“You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.”— Michael Bassey Johnson
“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”— Isocrates
“Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.”— Michael Bassey Johnson
“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.”— Robert Greene
“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.”— Criss Jami