{"quotes":[{"text":"Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["accomplishment","accomplishments","achievement","busy","busyness","diligence","excellence","getting-things-done","gossip","hand","hands","hard-work","idleness","labor","laziness","lazy","life-lesson","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","success","talking","talking-too-much","tongues","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words","work-ethic","work","work"],"id":56357,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.","author":"Michael Hyatt","tags":["busyness","intentional-living","life-plan","personal-development"],"id":76137,"author_id":"Michael+Hyatt"},{"text":"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.","author":"Claire Tomalin","tags":["activism","busyness","character","introspection"],"id":108236,"author_id":"Claire+Tomalin"},{"text":"Busyness chokes deep thinking.","author":"Todd Stocker","tags":["busy","busyness","hurry","thinking"],"id":122637,"author_id":"Todd+Stocker"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-needs","busy","busyness","civilization","civilized","companies","company","cook","cooking","deep","dictum","dictums","eat","eat-out","eating","employee","employees","epigram","epigrams","exploit","exploitation","exploited","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","groceries","grocery","humor","humorous","humour","hunger","hungry","innate","insightful","laziness","lazy","made-me-think","make-a-living","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","owner","owners","persuade","philosopher","produce","production","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","restaurant","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-presavation","south-africa","south-african","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","takeaway","takeaways","takeout","thought-provoking","thoughtful","uncivilized"],"id":142124,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Nothing consumes time like nothing.","author":"Russell Ackoff","tags":["busyness","time","time-management"],"id":155686,"author_id":"Russell+Ackoff"},{"text":"Some times things just fall off your plate.","author":"V.K. Springs","tags":["busy","busyness","life","life-lessons"],"id":165622,"author_id":"V.K.+Springs"},{"text":"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!","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["busyness","materialism"],"id":167950,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"There’s more to life than increasing its speed.","author":"Frank Sonnenberg","tags":["busy-life","busyness","life-lessons"],"id":197941,"author_id":"Frank+Sonnenberg"},{"text":"When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.","author":"Robin McKinley","tags":["busyness","coping","food","life","life-lessons","worry"],"id":219591,"author_id":"Robin+McKinley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}