Quotes About Busyness

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

We're in a society, I think, where everyone thinks it's so cool to work, it's so cool to be online, so cool to be super busy. I think it's super cool not to be busy.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

The busier you get, and the more forward-looking you become, the more difficult it is to actually acknowledge and gain strength and inspiration from the things you've already accomplished, which can become problematic when you're in a startup.

What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.

Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

It's a bit of a joke among my friends that, although I'm very busy, active and constantly rushing around all over the place, I've always struggled to fit any 'real' exercise into my life.

My life is organized chaos.

I come up with more ideas when I'm on the road, but I don't get to finish them. I don't get to fully flush them out because I'm so busy on the road. I'm very all over the place, but I'm definitely most creative when I'm out here.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.