Quotes About Busyness

Im a pretty normal person, working, juggling a husband and kids and friends and trying to find a little time for me, too. I never wear make-up on the school run; I am the scruffiest person by far, usually with a white toothpaste smear somewhere because some days I literally dont look in a mirror.

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

I think because my life is so insane and it's constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

An older charismatic woman told me, "If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work." There

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

There's no down time any more.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

Whenever Mark takes over the explaining, Brockhoff drops back and takes out her phone. She does not seem rude, just grindingly busy and determined to stay on top of her day. I see her come and go in my peripheral vision, pacing, answering email. She gives the impression of someone for whom idleness is almost physically unbearable. She is gorgeous, articulate, fast-moving, powerful. Lesser humans left blinking in her wake. Brockhoff

I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.

It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.

in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

Have you ever been too busy driving to take time to get gas?

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective. People

Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

I don't like idle time.

I'm kind of impatient. I like to see things realized and not just work on a project for three years and wait, wait, wait. I try to keep myself busy.

I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.