Yvette Mimieux Quotes

I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.

I always like to keep myself moving.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

We are not put into the world to sit still and know, we are put in it to act.

I believe that life is about doing.

I go where the action is.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I am always active.

I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Let us then, be up and doing.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Do what you will, only do something.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I'm happiest when I'm moving.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.