It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

— Orrin Woodward

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

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

— Roman Payne

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

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

— Amit Kalantri

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

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.

— Hrishikesh Agnihotri

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

No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honorable and detailed reference to PunditKanhaiya Law Mira and the multifaceted and many splendor trail that he has left behind not only in the field of Law but in almost every other sphere of noble human activity.

— Munindra Misra