#busy

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. ↗

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#busy #dreamer #hermit #misfit #thinker

ليس كافيًا أن تكون مشغولًا. فكذلك النمل. السؤال هو: بماذا نحن مشغولون ؟ ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#full-life #priorities #business

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#bee #busy #buzz #just #never

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#fun #obligations #business

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#relax #smoking #business

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm. ↗

— Bill Buford

#calm #modern #pace #traditional-work #business

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get. ↗

— Hoda Kotb

#business

Full minds create chaos. ↗