Busy Work Quotes:

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

- Tom DeMarco

source: Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.29, Addison-Wesley

topic: Busy, Busy Work, Organizational

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

topic: Busy, Forget, Live Life Happy, One Life To Live, Work And Life Balance

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspiring, Time, Fog, Managing Time, Not Enough Time

Being busy does not always mean real work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Real, Mean, Doe, Infinite Intelligence, Productions

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

- Kirstie Alley

topic: Class, Acting, Busy, Busy Work

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

- Abu Bakr

topic: Work, Men, Trying, Busy Work

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

- Kevin Durant

topic: Team, Player, Winning, Busy Work

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Hard Work, Opportunity, Luck, Monday Morning Motivational, Luck And Hard Work

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

- John Wooden

topic: Balance, Busy, Forget, Making A Living, Work And Life Balance

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting, Work Done, Monday Morning Motivational

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

- Paula Fox

topic: Writing, Twenties, Busy, Busy Work

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

- Og Mandino

topic: Change, Real, Night, Unimportant Things, Busy Work

I do have a busy work life. So I would say that the positive atmosphere at home combined with the support I receive from my family and loved ones is really what helps me balance it all.

- Josie Ho

source: "Actress, Producer, Musician Josie Ho: Support from Family (and Puppies)". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Home, Support, Atmosphere, Busy Work

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

- Joanna Baillie

source: Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

topic: Sports, Degrees, Ease, Busy Work, Young And Old

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

- Ruth Benedict

topic: Children, Hands, Watches, Busy Work

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

- Og Mandino

topic: Energy, Doe, Succeed, Busy Work