Quotes About Busyness

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

We hold those who are on the tightest of schedules in reverence; the busier you are, the higher your status as a human being.

Aun cuando nuestra forma de vida pueda parecernos heroica, hay una buena proporción de nuestra frenética actividad que perturba a aquellos que nos rodean.

Christians are assimilating a culture of busyness, hurry and overload, which leads to 2) God becoming more marginalized in Christians' lives, which leads to 3) a deteriorating relationship with God, which leads to 4) Christians becoming even more vulnerable to adopting secular assumptions about how to live, which leads to 5) more conformity to a culture of busyness, hurry and overload. And then the cycle begins again.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

I am not alone, you see;—and those whose time is fully occupied seldom complain of solitude.

He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That's how he afforded the wine.

The 'busy' thing isn't a commitment, it's an evasion.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.