Book Titles

CrazyBusy
Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD

By Edward Hallowell

Year Published: 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0345482433
Categories: Busyness, Overwhelming, Psychology

137 Quotes Found

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CrazyBusy:

Our current ability to bring our offices and all our contacts with us wherever we go transforms wherever we go into a place where we always are.

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CrazyBusy:

There’s no stopping this electronic world now… We are accomplishing great things these days. We are increasingly free from offices and wires and boring meetings or down time.

088

CrazyBusy:

We don’t have to feel guilty about doing nothing. And still we manage to feel guilty!

090

CrazyBusy:

…if you listen, you will hear yourself telling yourself, You are about to lose it. Don’t take the bait. Back away. Go outside. Take a break. Listening to that voice can save a career, a marriage, or at least a day.

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CrazyBusy:

In order to cope with the many demands of everyday life and the information overload each day brings, a person needs to be able to stop and think, to pause over one point long enough to extract what matters before moving on.

101

CrazyBusy:

Life ais a powerful accelerator these days; what separates the successful from the frustrated is the quality of their brake sand their ability to use them.

101

CrazyBusy:

The overloaded brain and the overloaded life have become the norm. A person has to be quite deliberate to avoid overload.

105

CrazyBusy:

As demands mount, people lose the ability to stop and think, to prioritize and to say no. Fear clouds their judgment.

107

CrazyBusy:

Competition in all fields is getting stiffer as the world becomes increasingly flat.

108

CrazyBusy:

Modern life is neither linear nor circular. Its patterns are so difficult to decipher that it is causing more and more intelligent people to resort to simplistic, absolute conclusions just to feel the comfort of being certain, no matter if the certainty is a mirage.

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