17 quotes found
“Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of co...”
“The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.”
“I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?”
“Sometimes we feel that the busier we are, the more important we are--as though our busyness defines our worth...We can spend a lifetime whirling about at a feverish pace, checking off list after li...”
“The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.”
“The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.”
“When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.”
“Time is an excuse to delay.”
“But if the Busyness = Status equation works, its strictly because a social game has emerged wherein relatively privileged, educated people with all kinds of Choice disguise their decisions to be bu...”
“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one a...”
“Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!”
“Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.”
“There is no social stigma attached to the frenzy, no peer motivation to slow us down. Rather it is the opposite; busy is popular currency, traded among members of modern society like a precious com...”
“Nothing consumes time like nothing.”
“Juggling and balancing effectively required that we make clear, legacy-driven choices about what we're trying to keep in the air and how we sequence our movements down the beam. Because the ultimat...”
“But if the Busyness = Status equation works, it’s strictly because a social game has emerged wherein relatively privileged, educated people with all kinds of Choice disguise their decisions to be b...”
