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21 " Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness. "
― , Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results
22 " Battling busyness is a community response. "
― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
23 " When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. "
― Jack Kornfield
24 " 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 busy as manifestations of the universe’s insatiable demand for their particular prowess. And the rest of us agree to be impressed. It’s a stupid game. We can stop any time. "
25 " 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. "
26 " Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection. "
― Angela Lynne Craig , Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change
27 " Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. "
28 " The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans. "
29 " 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. "
30 " That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "