Just as it is almost proverbial that, if you want any business done for you, you should ask a busy man to do it, and not a man of leisure, so it is the laborious scholar, who is working hard at languages, who picks up, nay, actually reads and studies more of other subjects than the rest of his fellows at school or college. – Reverend W. J. Kennedy
There’s a saying in Romanian: „La pomul lăudat să nu te duci cu sacul”. This could be translated to: „If someone is praised a lot, don’t set your expectations high, they might be too busy to help you, or the praise might be fake”.
Somehow, I think the two sayings are related one to the other.
On one hand, if someone is busy, it means that they have lots of experience. But it might also mean that they are overwhelmed.
The solution – pick your battles. Choose a busy person for an important person, but calibrate your expectations.
