Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.

— Michael Hyatt

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

— Claire Tomalin

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

— Todd Stocker

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing consumes time like nothing.

— Russell Ackoff

Some times things just fall off your plate.

— V.K. Springs

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!

— Elisabeth Elliot

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

— Frank Sonnenberg

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

— Robin McKinley