Busyness Culture Quotes

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A person has to be busy to be alive.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.