Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what?” — John Keats Copy Share Image
“She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246” — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
“Far too often we miss life by doing something that we call ‘life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest. — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Be strategic about productivity—do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average way.” — Laurie Buchanan, PhD Copy Share Image
“Nothing will pain you more than your highest potential left on the table of busyness.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart... — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Busyness is one of the pastor’s most effective tools of remaining at a safe relational and emotional distance.” — J R Briggs Copy Share Image
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite… — Hume Cronyn Copy Share Image
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
“We tediously create calendars filled with empty duties, and then we foolishly let those calendars empty us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“With text messaging and e-mails buzzing in our pockets, our constant availability for phone calls, and hot new apps and social media… — Dean Graziosi Copy Share Image
“So don’t ignore the physical danger of busyness. Just remember the most serious threats are spiritual. When we are crazy busy, we… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Americans are suffering from a busyness epidemic. We’re addicted to busy. So many of us try to find fulfillment and self-worth in… — Crystal Paine Copy Share Image
Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
“Juggling and balancing effectively required that we make clear, legacy-driven choices about what we're trying to keep in the air and how… — Eric C. Sinoway Copy Share Image
“For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“There is no social stigma attached to the frenzy, no peer motivation to slow us down. Rather it is the opposite; busy… — Gillian Deacon Copy Share Image
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Busyness lies. It tricks us into thinking that things are happening. That we’re going places, being productive, living a full life. The… — Thoughts of a post-grad 21 year old who finds busyness overrated Copy Share Image
If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
