Quotes About Busyness

the distraction of business

A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.

Everybody is busy. Every man turns himself into a whole corporation to handle the business.

A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.

I noticed years ago that when people (myself definitely included) are anxious they tend to busy themselves with irrelevant activities, because these distract from and therefore reduce their actual experience of anxiety. To stay perfectly still is to feel the fear at its maximum intensity, so instead you scuttle around doing things as though you are, in some mysterious way, short of time.

You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo.

A busy person is usually the most efficient because they know how to manage their time. That's something I learned through dancing all through school and all throughout my life.

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

It must grace the festivity of the wedding; it must enliven the gloom of the funeral. It must cheer the intercourse of friends and enlighten the fatigue of labor. Success deserves a treat and disappointment needs it. The busy drink because they are busy; the idle because they have nothing else to do. The farmer must drink because his work is hard; the mechanic because his employment is sedentary and dull. It is warm, men drink to be cool; it is cool, they drink to be warm.27

a heart that is busy cannot mourn

If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

Anyone with a smartphone and a full email in-box knows that it's easy to be busy while not being aware that we're actually living.

those at the top of the income spectrum are among the most likely to be time-poor.

In the wider world, we keep hectically busy and fill every free moment of our day with some form of diversion—work, computers, television, movies, radio, magazines, newspapers, sports, alcohol, drugs, parties. Perhaps we distract ourselves because looking at our lives confronts us with our lack of meaning, our unhappiness, and our loneliness—and with the difficulty, the fragility, and the unbelievable brevity of life.

Lord," W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, perhaps quoting someone, "make us not great but busy.

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.

I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

I talk fast, I'm always running from one thing to another, and I tend to gesture a lot with my hands when I talk.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.