Quotes About Busyness

challenged with busy schedules

valorization of busyness.

I've been doing this for 50 years now and instead of retiring I'm busier than ever, though perhaps not as fast at getting things done. It's all terrifically interesting and very satisfying.

How quickly the world changes, yet we are so busy trying to live that we don't notice it. And yet, it does not change quickly enough.

All of us are partly living our story line the enemy offers us. Most of us, perhaps, live in not a terribly evil place in the moralistic sense of the word. We simply live where busyness, or apathy, or struggle with circumstances that won't change occupies most of our energy. And the enemy is perfectly happy to leave us in such a place practicing our religion.

It's hard to accuse someone of not working hard when he's got that earpiece as a constant reminder of how busy he might be. He

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

It's possible to be busy but not effective. Everyone's often busy, but few are effective. The effective are, the successful.

No matter how busy a man is, he is never too busy to stop and talk about how busy he is.

The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldnt we reverse it?-RVM

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn't we reverse it?

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

As a consequence of this common play of our minds, don't we all tend to fill up our days with things that just have to be done and then run around desperately trying to do them all, while in the process not really enjoying much of the doing because we are too pressed for time, too rushed, too busy, too anxious?

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

looked out of her window at the road below and the glimpse of the Strand beyond. Buses and cars tore noisily by, and people jostled on the pavements. Life was down there, bustling and real: love, death, birth, misery and vice; and some joy, she supposed.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply.

I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

Using the excuse of a busy life, I downshifted my conversations with God to asking for favors on the run.