BUSY

Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. 

Mabel Newcomber.

STATISTICS AND STUFF

Business rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family. It cultivates a program that plows under priorities. Many a church boasts about its active program: "Something for every night of the week for everybody." What a shame! With good intentions the local assembly can create the very atmosphere it was designed to curb. 

Dr. Charles Swindoll.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, on the contrary, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world. 

Eric Hoffer, Bits & Pieces, May 1990, p. 1.