Quotes About Busyness

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

My work keeps me so busy that I don't have much time even to interact with my family.

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy.

Busyness is certainly one of the reasons that owners don't think about whether or not their journey is taking them to a place they really want to wind up. They're constantly preoccupied—it goes with the territory—and figuring out the ultimate destination doesn't seem particularly urgent alongside, say, meeting the next payroll or landing the next big customer

I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.

Western laziness.... consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues.

Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sometimes I think we don't want to

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing, singing, laughing, learning.

Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 A.M. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 P.M. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

connection and inclusion versus busyness and exhaustion.

one of the most universal numbing strategies is what I call crazy-busy. I often say that when they start having twelve-step meetings for busy-aholics, they'll need to rent out football stadiums. We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

First, one of the most universal numbing strategies is what I call crazy-busy. I often say that when they start having twelve-step meetings for busy-aholics, they'll need to rent out football stadiums. We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

I drank and smoked to minimize my feelings of vulnerability and to look busy when all of the other girls at my table had been asked to dance. I literally needed something to do, something to help me look busy.