A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — © Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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.
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.
I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.
I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
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?
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'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'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.
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 don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
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