Quotes About Busyness

For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and work legitimizes them. They feel important; they feel needed; they feel alive. However, they have a false sense of life and importance, and eventually it leaves them feeling hollow. It

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Mrs. Bluebird, like most mothers, is altogether too busy to spend much time taking care of her clothes; and fine clothes need a lot of care

The work pressure in a daily is much. There is no time to etch out characters.

I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

As Claude-Anne Lopez notes, "In colonial America it was sinful to look idle, in France it was vulgar to look busy.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

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

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

I'm too busy for a thing." "A thing is something you should always make time for," Lisa said. "Things can be very relaxing. You could get a battery-operated thing." Eve laughed. "I think the thing we're talking about just changed into a different thing." "It's kind of the same thing.

I think the most important thing is to be busy, because if you have work occupying you, you don't have time to worry about the other serious problems in life.