Busyness Quotes
49 Busyness quotes by 44 unique authors
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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…
— David Whyte
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The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
— Thomas Merton
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
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The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if…
— Roger Ebert
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We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re…
— Thomas S. Monson
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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…
— Robert Musil
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Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.
— Kevin DeYoung
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When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.
— Kevin DeYoung
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
— Bill Hybels
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Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
— Alan Cohen
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to…
— Gunter Grass
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush…
— Mark Nepo
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
— George Carey
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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…
— Robert Fulghum
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How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes…
— Nancy Horan
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Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
— Mark Buchanan
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Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.
— Mark Buchanan
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If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless,…
— Wayne Muller
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Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
— Douglas B. Reeves
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Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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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…
— Tara Brach
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Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.
— Kevin DeYoung
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...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart...
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
— Dallas Willard
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Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
— Brigid Schulte
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