(1765 quotes found)
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing”
Lao Tzu
“The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years”
Charlotte Bronte
“Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Activity of the nervous system improves the capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger.”
Dr. Ralph Gerard
“It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.”
Bob Geldof
“The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.”
Pierre de Coubertin
“He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of which there were many-fascinatingly boring, so to speak, rather than merely boringly boring.”
John Gross
“C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.”
Charles Dickens
