Quotes About Busyness

I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.

You want to be busy and try and get the scoreboard moving, and showing that intent when you go out there is important.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

I'm lucky if I get my nails done, period.

When I was younger I remember rushing back and cooking a meal for the family, and never thinking about having a nap between the shows!

What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

multiple kids. They always need something, but everything is always happening at once. You know they need you, but there's never much time to follow through. And yet I was the one who'd wanted the big family. The bustling household. Because I'd been an only child, raised by parents who barely spoke, either to each other or to me. So I loved the commotion.

I always have something going on.

The feeling of unworthiness or that something is missing in our life is often at the root of excessive busy-ness and striving and therefore at the root of stress. By being very busy or working very hard, we often try to compensate for such feelings of lack. Alternately, we might seek love and approval from others or compulsively try to fix and improve ourselves.

people are very, very busy walking around you, paying with the currency of unhappiness now in order to reach their glorious futures someday…maybe.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

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From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing , a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: "You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God." The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk's words console, too. For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward. That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps.

The hardest work is to go idle.