Top 1200 Busy Day Quotes & Sayings

Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

I think I needed boxing as an excuse, to be busy, 'cause if I wasn't busy I was getting into trouble.

I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

I find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I had an assistant for a hot minute, because that was offered to me. And literally, after a day I was like, "I don't like this. I don't like someone else making the decisions that I should be making." I'm very busy, yes, but I'm not so busy that I can't make my own decisions. I want people to contact me directly about what time I'm being picked up in the morning.

There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

The reality of government is we are all very busy day-to-day, and often, the discussions about very deeply held views on things - there isn't the time and space to do that.

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

I think God is sending us messages all the time but we get so busy fulfilling our ambitions or in our day-to-day tasks that we forget to connect to God.

I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.

It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

I don't think I have normal days, they're all a bit strange. We're always busy, there's always something going on and I'm always darting around so it's a busy day.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

Before, if your phone was busy, your phone was busy. You had no cell phone. Now people work 24/7, their BlackBerry keeps them busy, and e-mail - and when do they have time for other pursuits? When do they have time to be politically active?

I like to be busy every day.

Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

The more shows that there are, the better it is for the industry. The writers are busy, if the writers are busy, the actors are busy.

I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.