Quotes About Busyness

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

On the sidewalks everyone holding either a giant coffee or a cell phone, as though a law had been declared against public displays of empty-handedness.

Doing nothing all day—it's difficult at first. Being busy is a habit, and a hard one to break.

There is no necessary correlation between how busy you are and how productive you are. Being busy isn't the same as being productive.

The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress. We think that just because people are busy and doing a lot of stuff that we are being successful. The fact of the matter is, if all that activity isn't taking you where you want to go, then it's just wasted time.

Life was so full of different things, and so many fresh interests and new plans were crowding continually into her brain, that she never had time to think whether her tie was neatly knotted or her belt properly fastened; it

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

We are usually very busy towards the end of the year, so I know that whenever we get super busy, it must be a sign that the year is ending.

Due to the hectic, non-stop nature of my work, I'm always using my BlackBerry to stay in touch with my studio, wherever I am.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

I have found ways to kill this ever-present feeling of loneliness. I try a new dish and experiment with food, I'll clean my cupboard, do the little things in the house, and I keep myself busy. I find things to do.

A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice. Sure

One of the most common forms of laziness is staying busy.