Quotes About Busyness

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

Work is a form of nervousness.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

I like to make stuff and I try to stay busy.

Once you catch on to what clutter is, you'll find it everywhere. Isn't meaningless activity a form of clutter? How many of the power lunches, cocktail parties, social events, and long evenings glued to your screens have been clutter—activities that add nothing positive to your life? What about disorganized days full of busyness with no sense of accomplishment?

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Fuss is the froth of business.

Your busyness cannot stop God's business to save his children.

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

The third kind of loneliness is avoiding unnecesssary activities. When we're lonely in a "hot" way, we look for something to save us; we look for a way out. We get this queasy feeling that we call loneliness, and our minds just go wild trying to come up with companions to save us from despair. That's called unnecessary activity. It's a way of keeping ourselves busy so we don't have to feel any pain.

Estaba demasiado ocupada para ver el sol.» Ella se rió y me dijo: «¡Demasiado ocupada para vivir la vida!»

Paradoxically, sloth reigns most in our technologically busy world where leisure has been abolished and life has been programmed and scheduled down to the last detail.

We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.

In the cramped environment of little houses, with the car parked under the kitchen window, clothes hanging in the yard, countless skimpy errands keeping her involved until nothing else is left, only a preoccupation with things to get done, things to have ready

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.

There's this kind of pressure to be creative or busy most of the time, with lots of activities and progress, and I'm trying to run from that.

I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

People always ask me, 'What do you do all day?'

I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.