“busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride.” — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“A step you'll need to take is to stop buying into the notion that busyness equates to importance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It's surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“Busyness is no different from laziness when it doesn’t lead you to accomplish anything.” — Chris Bailey Copy Share Image
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my… — Marjorie Bowen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being… — Lisa Yee Copy Share Image
“The busyness of our lives can lead to imbalance if we do not take periodic breaks. This disequilibrium can put us ill… — Etta Dale Hornsteiner Copy Share Image
“Gratitude and wonder are squeeze out when our lives are packed full of busyness and responsibilities. There is simply no room, no… — Christine Pohl Copy Share Image
“What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)” — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
“...caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving… — Phileena Heuertz and Darren Prince Copy Share Image
“When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“One reason we never tame the busyness beast is because we are unwilling to kill anything. We rearrange our schedule and tighten… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“But if the Busyness = Status equation works, it’s strictly because a social game has emerged wherein relatively privileged, educated people with… — Tasha Golden Copy Share Image
“When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer… — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, it's part of being Americans.… — Kevin Deyoung Copy Share Image
“We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking , and hoping what we do magically works out.… — Len Holman 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
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
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca 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
“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
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
“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
