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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
Anyone who is so busy that they do not have time to enjoy what life has for them are just too busy.
Being busy is different from taking action.
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
It's not enough to be busy.
Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.
One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.
When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.
Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging.
Probably jet lag.
Life has gotten in the way of our life.
To me, 'busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.
We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.
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.
Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.
The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.
To be busy is man's only happiness.
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!
The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next 'fix' is coming from.
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.
Laziness demands misery.
Life is too short to be busy.
procrastination,
Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted!
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
Not the why but the what.
impossible planning, strange priorities and a continual lack of information.
The world got itself in a big ass hurry and didn't want to slow down to see what it was running from.
The problem with staying busy , however , was that sooner or later you ran out of thing you'd been trying so hard to not to think about became the only thing you could think about .
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
Americans are suffering from a busyness epidemic. We're addicted to busy. So many of us try to find fulfillment and self-worth in piling our plates too high. The busier we are, the more important we feel. This is why our culture, by and large, is exhausted, overworked, and overwhelmed.
Working gets in the way of living.
We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.
Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'
Too many accidents with all the traffic ...
So few people can think and talk at the same time.
Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.
The urgent can drown out the important.
Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. But
Why did everyone have to be so goddamn needy?
As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing?
The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens.
People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness
they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
I'm not busy ... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?
always busy because of interesting books
Busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride.
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
We're so busy keeping busy that we fail to see the error of our ways.
The world surrounding us often distracts us from our life purposes
People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.
There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.
Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
A busybody's work is never done.
People are not patient anymore.
Because the world is not going anywhere there is no hurry.
It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
Baggage. We all had it. Mine was starting to get pretty heavy.
Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls.
I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.
The world is frenzied - giving and taking.
Busy mouths grow on idle heads
Laziness is a killer of our time.
The need to complicate something whose very beauty lay in simplicity and passion.
Unquenchable desire for interconnectedness. Sate me.
Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
So much of our busyness comes down to meeting people's expectations.
Lazy people live lonely lives.
Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present.
Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
We borrow. We steal. We purchase what we need and buy what we don't. We acquire things, people, places, all in the process of losing ourselves. Busyness is the religion of distraction. I cannot talk to you, because I have too much to do.
Our lack of focus is our primary problem and the source of many of our difficulties, like procrastination, trouble setting priorities, trouble dealing with time, trouble finishing projects, perfectionism, and the inevitable demoralization.
Tired, not just of living, but of existing.
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.