It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.
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.
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.
George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.
Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
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.
Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.
So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
There's that Bob Dylan quote: 'He who's not busy being born is busy dying.' That's a great line. And I really believe that.
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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.