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Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.
Sep 29, 2025
. . . 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.
Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.
Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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.
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
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.
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.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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!
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