Never confuse activity with results.
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
Live your life by doing activities that are beneficial
In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.
The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.
I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.
The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.
About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition. So that means the chess master or someone who has really thought about it and given themselves feedback on a particular activity for at least 10,000 hours or more.
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of. . . joyful doing.
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
Winter in # Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.
Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.
Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.