Quotes About Busyness

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Busy work often looks more like work than real work does

His woolly grey hair, short thick body, air of perpetual busyness, suggested an industrious gnome conscripted into the service of the army; a gnome who also liked to practise considerable malice against the race of men with whom he mingled, by making as complicated as possible every transaction they had to execute through himself.

He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking.

How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'? It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life

The world is full of people running

No, being too busy isn't your reason for keeping clutter in your life. Uncomfortable though it may be to have so much unfinished work surrounding you, you keep those magazines and broken antiques because all that potential feels nice. Now take one more step in your thinking and what you'll find is a tiny but powerful fear of commitment.

I never skipped a meal. I can't even recall a time when I've skipped a meal. I never understand when people say 'I'm so busy, I forgot to eat today.' It's never happened. I always find time!

Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.'

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.