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“I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.” — Tim Kreider, “The ‘Busy’ Trap,” New York Times (2012-06-30)

Author YahooeyPosted on June 8, 2021June 6, 2021Categories QuotationsTags busyness, exhaustion, meaningless, Tim Kreider3 Comments on Quote of the Day

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We think that life is long, because art is so, and that, because we have much to do, it is well worth doing.

“We think that life is long, because art is so, and that, because we have much to do, it is well worth doing.” — William Hazlitt, Lectures On The Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

Author YahooeyPosted on January 8, 2020January 1, 2020Categories QuotationsTags art, busyness, life, much to do, William Hazlitt, worth doingLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.

“There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.” — Samuel Johnson, The Idler N° 48 (1759-03-17)

Author YahooeyPosted on June 11, 2019June 9, 2019Categories QuotationsTags appearances, busyness, idleness, Samuel Johnson, The IdlerLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, September 30, 1757

Author YahooeyPosted on June 27, 2014March 15, 2015Categories QuotationsTags busyness, Letters To His Son, Philip StanhopeLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.

“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.” — Tim Kreider, The ‘Busy’ Trap

Author YahooeyPosted on December 19, 2013March 21, 2021Categories QuotationsTags busyness, The ‘Busy’ Trap, Tim KreiderLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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