Quotes About Busyness

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. Second,

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas.

The question that must guide all organizing activity in a parish is not how to keep people busy, but how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.

We seem to have a fear of empty spaces. The philosopher Spinoza called this a horror vacui. We want to fill up what is empty. Our lives stay very full. And when we are not blinded by busyness, we fill our inner space with guilt about things of the past or worries about things to come.

It is not easy for us, busy people, to truly receive a blessing. Perhaps the fact that few people offer a real blessing is the sad result of the absence of people who are willing and able to receive such a blessing. It has become extremely difficult for us to stop, listen, pay attention, and receive gracefully what is offered to us.

It was hard for me to see God at work in my life when I was running from class to class and traveling from place to place.

We often are very, very busy, and usually very tired as a result, but we should ask ourselves how much of our reading and talking, visiting and lobbying, lecturing and writing, is more part of an impulsive reaction to the changing demands of our surroundings than an action that was born out of our own center.

While busy with and worried about many things, we seldom feel truly satisfied, at peace, or at home.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence.

A busy life is an empty life.

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness."

I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!

Arriving home on a weeknight is guaranteed to be the least relaxing part of my day. The door opens, and two Tasmanian devil-children fly at me, showing me art projects and asking for snacks. My bag has barely hit the floor before I'm off doing 20 things at once, none of which is preparing dinner.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!

Pronto puedes estar tan ocupado con las actividades diarias del trabajo que pierdas de vista los resultados generales requeridos.