Engaging Activities Quotes

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.

Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

The intelligent man is never bored.

Keep on playing the Experience!

I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.