Top 100 Quotes About Busyness
#1. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach
#2. Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.
Mark Buchanan
#3. 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.
Stephen R. Covey
#4. That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore Vidal
#5. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":
Timothy Ferriss
#6. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#7. When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
Oswald Chambers
#8. Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today
Peter Marshall
#9. 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.
Terry Tempest Williams
#10. 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.
Joan D. Chittister
#11. Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger.
Kevin DeYoung
#12. The 'deep pause' needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a 'deep pause' to be deeply wasteful.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. 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.
Hume Cronyn
#14. Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#15. Busyness does not make you money, business do. Are you running a busyness or a business?
Saji Ijiyemi
#16. We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We're, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.
Mary Oliver
#17. Godly saints will always tell you that the inward witness of the Spirit is most clearly heard when you are quiet before him in prayer. It is then that his still, small voice can be most clearly heard. It is not then drowned out by the noisiness and busyness of our lives.
Garry Friesen
#19. Learn the difference between busyness and accomplishments.
John Kim
#20. Busyness is like sin: kill it, or it will be killing you.
Kevin DeYoung
#21. When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.
Kevin DeYoung
#22. Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Mary Oliver
#23. It's strange how many of us choose to stuff our lives with busyness and distractions. When we're too busy, we don't do anything well. Our relationships suffer, our performance at work suffers, and we don't enjoy our lives. Yet being "crazy busy" is a badge of honor for some people.
Bert Jacobs
#24. Last of terror's stages, Selene had tutored Europa and me, is busyness.
Steven Pressfield
#25. We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
Alan Watts
#26. Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Mason Cooley
#27. Because of this inner busyness, which is going on almost all the time, we are liable either to miss a lot of the texture of our life experience or to discount its value and meaning.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#28. Our state of wellness determines our response to any situation. Never allow the busyness of life to distract you from taking care of your well being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.
Linda Hogan
#30. When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.
Gary Keller
#31. 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.
C. Neil Strait
#32. So much of our busyness comes down to meeting people's expectations.
Kevin DeYoung
#33. We won't say no to more craziness until we can say yes to more Jesus. We will keep choosing dinner rolls over the bread of life. We will choose the fanfare of the world over the feet of Jesus. We will choose busyness over blessing.
Kevin DeYoung
#34. 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.
Robert Musil
#35. The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God.
Kevin DeYoung
#36. Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.
Louis De Bernieres
#37. Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
Bill Hybels
#38. The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen ... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist
#39. Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart ...
Soren Kierkegaard
#40. 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.
Eugene H. Peterson
#41. Renunciation of many good things is needed to break our bondage to the fragmenting forces of our society, which most of us have internalized, as if busyness on many fronts were a virtue instead of a vice.
David Janzen
#42. Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
Mark Buchanan
#43. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.
Timothy Ferriss
#44. May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.
Traci LaRussa
#45. Busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride.
Kevin DeYoung
#46. What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#48. We simply do not value rest. Busyness is lauded, and idleness is of the Devil.
Andrew Gilmore
#49. How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
Khalil Gibran
#50. Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
Alan Cohen
#51. 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.
Ann Voskamp
#52. In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.
Paul David Tripp
#53. A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
David Whyte
#54. If you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.
Darrell Calkins
#58. When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
Jack Kornfield
#59. Joining Jesus doesn't add another layer of busyness on top of an already insane schedule. Instead, joining Jesus results in less stress, more life, more laughter and more fruit than what many of us are currently seeing.
Greg Finke
#60. And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging.
Carnegie Mellon
#61. When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
George Carey
#62. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.
Harry Bingham
#63. 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.
David Whyte
#64. The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
Thomas Merton
#65. 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.
Crystal Paine
#67. 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.
Gunter Grass
#68. When we get waylaid from our walk with God by busyness, depression, family problems, or worse, God does not abandon us.
Brennan Manning
#69. The Old Poets Of China
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
Mary Oliver
#70. 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.
James Fox
#71. We can rest, because he worked. We can lay down our prideful busyness, because he laid down his life. We can keep coming back to him in the midst of our failures, because he keeps all his promises to us.
Kevin DeYoung
#72. I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.
Marjorie Bowen
#73. Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can no longer keep them at bay. Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
#74. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sometimes I think we don't want to
Sogyal Rinpoche
#75. If I turn up the music of busyness, I will miss the whispers of God's call.
Diane Moody
#76. Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
Douglas B. Reeves
#77. While the Giver archetype is celebrated in our culture, the Receiver is almost wholly unknown. The result? Busyness is a virtue. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#78. I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy busyness of worms in the soil.
Tor Udall
#79. I thought the doing and the busyness would keep me safe. They keep me numb. Which is not the same as safe, which isn't even the greatest thing to aspire to. If
Shauna Niequist
#80. Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.
Crystal Paine
#81. Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart. In the midst of outer busyness
Paul E. Miller
#82. Caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving the Messiah and more like trying to become one.
Phileena Heuertz And Darren Prince
#83. She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win.
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Ann Packer
#84. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results, and one's role in them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#85. The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
Ann Voskamp
#86. Love is easy early on...it's when feelings ebb and flow and the busyness of life creeps in that real love shines through in small conscious choices.
Steve Knox
#87. 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?
Tara Brach
#88. 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 of behavior and meaningless busyness.
Nancy Horan
#89. How many of us feel this strange mix of busyness and lifelessness?
Kevin DeYoung
#90. Love is easy early on...its when the busyness of life creeps in and felling ebb and flow that real love shines through in small choices.
Steve Knox
#91. Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
Brigid Schulte
#92. 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.
Hilary Mantel
#93. She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.
David Brooks
#94. We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.
Mark Slouka
#95. The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.
Michael Hyatt
#96. People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what?
John Keats
#98. The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.
Glenn C. Stewart
#99. My temptation is to tackle everything at once, or nothing at all.
Kevin DeYoung
#100. It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
