Quotes about Busyness

We often are very, very busy, and usually very tired as a result, but we should ask ourselves how much of our reading and talking, visiting and lobbying, lecturing and writing, is more part of an impulsive reaction to the changing demands of our surroundings than an action that was born out of our own center.

While busy with and worried about many things, we seldom feel truly satisfied, at peace, or at home.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.