James Dobson Quotes

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.

I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.

Hurry always empties a soul.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.