It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators. — Russell L. Ackoff
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. — Thomas Jefferson
The quality of life is determined by its activities. — Aristotle
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. — Edward Bellamy
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. — John Wanamaker
Finding an activity that fits your lifestyle, that you enjoy, and that allows you to work at a steady pace is key. — Peter Attia
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. — Ovid
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation. — Seneca
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. — Thomas Aquinas
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. — Fulton J. Sheen
Everyone was having a blast doing something unique and fun. — MrBeast
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. — LeRoy Neiman
Being Active Quotes
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. — Sojourner Truth
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter. — Tariq Ramadan
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value. — Michael Porter
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. — Indira Gandhi
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. — Jan Tschichold
Activism Quotes
The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people. — Bernie Sanders
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. — Robert Baden-Powell
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily. — Michel Odent
The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.
We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections. — Grace Lee Boggs
Don't mistake activity for achievement. — John Wooden
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity? — Kevin Gates
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. — Huldrych Zwingli
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing. — Paula Scher
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority. — Barbara Jordan
Recreate Yourself Quotes
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat. — Warsan Shire
In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday. — Pharrell Williams
The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails. — Mark Parker
Everyday has 1440 minutes. Be active for 30!
O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone. — St. Catherine of Siena
Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment. — Neale Donald Walsch
The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over. — Geena Davis
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune. — Anne of Austria
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others. — Mahatma Gandhi
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. — Dennis Quaid
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more. — Irvine Welsh
Recreation Quotes
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep. — Robert Owen
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third. — Amy Poehler
Think that's what attracted me to painting so much. I could create any kind of world that I wanted. Nothing hurts here, no pain, nobody's unhappy, it's a pleasant place. Everything's nice here.
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions. — Susanna Wesley
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Never get complacent. Nothing lasts forever. Constantly be in recreation mode! — Patrick Bet-David
Visioning is an ongoing journey, not a one-time activity.
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. — Michael K. Simpson
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. — Dale Carnegie
The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho. — Michael K. Simpson
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations. — John Stott
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness. — Brigham Young
Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was. — James Carriger Paine
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. — Dave Barry
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active. — Lee Haney
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity. — Karl Marx
The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders. — Angela Ruggiero
I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature." — David Gordon Green
If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person. — Willard F. Harley
Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter. — Dave Barry
I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active. — Adrian Grenier
It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle access and walking access on some of the interior roads. — John Wallace
Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it. — Jennifer Pharr Davis
Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met. — James L Hymes
Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles. — William J. Clinton
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar? — Josemaria Escriva
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