Busyness Quotes

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will;

a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God .

.. Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness .

.. in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness.

… We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge.

What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.

What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith.

Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

They say time is money, but that's not true.

Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure.

Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall.

You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

You want a woman who, if needed, will be the CEO of the home.

In essence, you want a woman who understands the difference between ambition and busyness. You also want a woman who understands that submission is strength, not weakness. Meaning, she understands the importance of your leadership but she is also strong enough not to allow you to run over her.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs.

Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.