Quotes About Busyness

One of the most common forms of laziness is staying busy. Too busy to take care of your wealth, or your health, or your relationships.

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.

Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it's when we're busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.

There certainly are some drawbacks to belonging to a busy man no matter how fine he may be as I believe you have sometimes found out.48

On some deep level, we may choose to fill our days with busy work as a way to avoid the inevitable pain and disappointment in accepting that who we are may not be who we thought we were.

Regrets were like hauntings, Jericho knew, visitations people tried to dispel with busyness or the bottle, with blame heaped on others, or with a relentless urge to reframe and retell their own histories, to make up stories that haunted them less than the truth.

As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

He is a good, kind man," said Mma Potokwane. "And such men are often too busy. I have noticed that round here too. That man I was talking to just then—one of our groundsmen—he is like that. He is so kind that everybody asks him to do everything. We had a bad-tempered man working here once and he had nothing to do because nobody, apart form myself, of course, had the courage to ask him to do anything.

If you don't have things to keep you busy, you end up starting fights with your neighbours.

modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky

Were there any idle people left? In the past, there had seemed to be plenty of those, but they had either stopped being idle or had managed to conceal their idleness behind a façade of being busy.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Obviously filming and working has consistently been a part of my life. I've never had a huge break of time when I wasn't working on something or promoting something.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Then it crosses my mind, 'But I'm a very busy woman! I don't have time for a stroke!'

The simple, almost embarrassing reality is that we feel too busy to search for meaning.

We live in a culture that celebrates activity. We collapse our sense of who we are into what we do for a living. The public performance of busyness is how we demonstrate to one another that we are important. The more people see us as tired, exhausted, over-stretched, the more they think we must be somehow … indispensable. That we matter.

So many people carried such a lot of misery on their backs. You just didn't know what was going on in their lives. Half the time you were too busy to notice anyway.

Like too many of us, I mistook a busy life for a rich one.