Quotes About Busyness

Art or no Art, 2015 was already going to be the busiest year of my life. I'm not sure how I'll make it all work yet but I'm feeling like a warrior and I'm prepared to work hard.

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

If my mind began to wander again, I found a way to distract it. Stay busy. Get drunk. Get laid. Anything to escape the chamber of torture that was my mind.

Our use of time is a critical factor in whether we will be successful or unsuccessful in the important areas of life. Successful people keep the main thing the main thing. They don't let their time fill up with busyness that keeps them from the important parts of their lives that really need attention.

I don't like not being busy.

I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

I'm a busy mom and I'm a big snacker throughout the day, so I'll do everything from leftovers from what my children did not eat, whether that's like a half bowl of cereal or a banana or whatever.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

If you want to see chaos, you should come to my house early in the morning when my three kids are running around. That's chaos.

It's really hard to get enough sleep, so I try to end my days by 9 P.M. so my husband and I have time to watch TV, chat, and then I like to read for at least half an hour before bed, but we have a lot of events, and there are places to go and people to talk to.

My friends ask me why I don't chill out and take things easy. I tell them that when I used to work 326 days a year, I never had time to do anything.

People are no longer human beings. We should be called human doings.

While eating dessert, we ponder what we should do afterward. After that evening, it's "What should we do this weekend?" After we've been out, we walk into the house and immediately turn on the television, pick up the phone, open a book, or start cleaning. It's almost as though we're frightened at the thought of not having something to do, even for a minute.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

Activity is not output.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.