“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)
Tag: busyness
Quote of the Day
“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
Quote of the Day
“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)
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“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, September 30, 1757
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“Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.” — Tim Kreider, The ‘Busy’ Trap