A quotation from Horace

He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
 
          [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/

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A quotation from George Carlin

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that shit.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Short Takes [Part 2]”

More info about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/79427/

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"Why #DoingLess Made Me #Achieve More -- I used to wear my #busyness as a badge of honor. Then I realized it was just a cage."

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-doing-less-made-me-achieve-more/

A quotation from A. E. Kittredge

My friend, there will come one day to you a Messenger, whom you cannot treat with contempt. He will say, “Come with me;” and all your pleas of business cares and earthly loves will be of no avail. When his cold hand touches yours, the key of the counting-room will drop forever, and he will lead you away from all your investments, your speculations, your bank-notes and real estate, and with him you will pass into eternity, up to the bar of God. You will not be too busy to die.

Abbott Eliot "A. E." Kittredge (1834-1912) American clergyman and Presbyterian leader
(Attributed)

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You suffer, so you are....
... a better customer

About the world..

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A quotation from Barbara Brown Taylor

I do not mean to make an idol of health, but it does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author
Essay (1999-11-03), “Divine Subtraction,” Christian Century

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Joy and Privilege of Busyness

The toll of too much busyness can be catastrophic… to our health, to our relationships, and to our faith.

But a type of busyness is welcome.

“Like Martha in scripture, it is easy to feel resentment because we seem to be doing all the work while others are getting more of a free ride…That is the feeling that can weigh us down for long periods during our adult years, and can make us fall asleep to something that we will wake up to only when it is too late, namely, that these years when we are young and healthy and in charge are the best years of our lives. There is something worse than having too much to do, and that is having nothing to do or too little to do of importance. We will be a lot more awake to that fact when we sit in a retirement home, stripped of youth, health, and our car keys, knowing that all those years when we thought we were being taken for granted were years of privilege that were laden with a potential for joy that – because of our unawareness of privilege – we never quite picked up on.” (R.R., p. 76)

May we all be aware of the privilege of busyness and the potential for joy in it, unto the Lord.

“Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord” (Romans 12:11, ESV).

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10, ESV).

#busyness

A quotation from Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for — business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Essay (1863-10), “Life without Principle,” Atlantic Monthly, No. 72

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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Filling my head with busyness for the day ahead. At 5:30 am. Thanks to #music for bringing me back. #busyness

A quotation from Moffat, Steven:

«
THE DOCTOR: Listen, listen, gotta dash. Things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moffat-steven/72553/

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Practice like a #Stoic: 19, Cut out #busyness;
Are you too #busy because you are not #payingattention to what's really #important?

https://thephilosophygarden.substack.com/p/practice-like-a-stoic-19-cut-out

A quotation from Martin, Steve:

«
HARRIS: Sitting there at that moment I thought of something else Shakespeare said. He said, “Hey … life is pretty stupid; with lots of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much.” Of course I’m paraphrasing: “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martin-steve/17747/

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We can get so busy in our day-to-day lives that it takes something like the seasons to wake us up. Change isn't necessarily good or bad. Only a new opportunity if we choose to see it that way.

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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:

«
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.

[C’est le grand inconvénient des livres nouveaux: ils nous empêchent de lire les anciens.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22825/

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A quotation from Cox, Marcelene:

«
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of trees is lost when raking leaves.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cox-marcelene/62797/

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🛑 Ever felt overwhelmed by the nonstop pace of life? My latest blog entry emphasizes the power of taking a break. In a world where busyness often masks as productivity, it’s essential to recognize that hitting pause isn’t a weakness. It’s a testament to our humanity. Let’s remember to breathe, reflect, and stand up for those who can’t afford such pauses.

🔗 Dive in to understand more: http://roqueneto.com/2023/08/22/hit-pause/

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Here is the next in the new set of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Seneca's On The Shortness of Life, this one about how preoccupied people cut themselves off from enjoying the time the get

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life-preoccupation-and-wasting-time
#Podcast #Seneca #Life #Preoccupation #Busyness #Stoicism

The Kanban Guide talks about optimizing for effectiveness, efficiency, and predictablity. Counterintuitively, we often optimize for busyness instead, which makes the whole system worse. My thoughts at:
https://improvingflow.com/2023/05/20/busyness.html #kanban #busyness