Quotes about Activity

The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress. We think that just because people are busy and doing a lot of stuff that we are being successful. The fact of the matter is, if all that activity isn't taking you where you want to go, then it's just wasted time.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Nothing happens until something moves.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

What need have we of repose when our minds and bodes come to delight in activity? of consolation, when we have soma? of something immovable, when we have social order?

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

Melania and the White House had accused me of criminal activity, had publicly shamed and fired me, and made me their scapegoat.