Rushing Around Quotes:

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

- Mary Baker Eddy

source: Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”

topic: Rushing, Rushing Around, Proof

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

- Nora Ephron

topic: New York, Heart, Light, I Love New York, Street Lights

I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.

- Amy Chua

topic: Daughter, Mother, Beach, Best Husband, Love Teaching

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

- Don DeLillo

topic: Rushing, Brain, Molecules, Rushing Around

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

- Louise Erdrich

source: Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.97, Odyssey Editions

topic: Time, Rocks, Rushing, Rushing Around

What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

- Tara Brach

topic: Hands, Two, Rushing, Computation, Rushing Around

In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

- Frederick Franck

topic: Eye, Clouds, Rushing, Rushing Around

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

- Guy Finley

topic: Heart, Rushing, Mind, Rushing Around

Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.

- Kathy Troccoli

topic: God, Believe, Eye, Rushing Around, Small Gestures

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

- Prince Philip

topic: Gun, Rushing, Classic, Counsellors, Rushing Around

If you're rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off you're probably going to get hurt.

- Joe Teti

topic: Hurt, Cutting, Rushing, Rushing Around

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

- Maria Shriver

topic: Graduation, Opposites, Rushing, Pausing, Rushing Around

People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.244, Macmillan

topic: Smile, Rushing, Impact, Over The Edge, Rushing Around

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Dark, Night, Reality, Middle Of The Night, Crackpots

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

- Tom Hollander

topic: Rushing Around