Quotes About Busyness

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

It is no rest to be idle.

Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.

The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.

Have you noticed that the most effective worker is generally the busiest?

Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.

that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results, and one's role in them.

When you are employed, hence dependent on other people's judgment, looking busy can help you claim responsibility for the results in a random environment. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one's role in them.

The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one's role in them.

Today's target was a woman of ninety-three who looked thirty-three, and who was constantly busy. When she wasn't looking at her phone she was looking in her purse; when she wasn't looking in her purse she was looking at her nails, or the sleeve of her blouse, or the loose button on her jacket. What does she fear in idleness? Citra wondered. The woman was so self- absorbed, she had no clue that she was under the scrutiny of a scythe, trailing her by only ten yards.

You get used to that work mode, get used to always doing something.

Moms don't just sit there cooking everyday and aren't always there to greet their kids at the school bus.

I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.