“ليس كافيًا أن تكون مشغولًا. فكذلك النمل. السؤال هو: بماذا نحن مشغولون ؟”
“Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are?”
“You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.”
Source: Invisible Man
“Busyness chokes deep thinking.”
Source: Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
“...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.”
“From what I've witness, honesty didn't really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.”
Source: Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
“What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I’m too busy’ is another way of saying, ‘It’s not a priority.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have.
I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Quiet mind, easy life. Busy mind, hard life.”
Source: Inner Peace: Top Quotes, Ideas, And Insights To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed And Live A Better Life