Top 1200 Busy Working Quotes & Sayings

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.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

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

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

The poor are too busy working to need justice.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

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

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 had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.

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.

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

Because we in the mainland didn't have a youth. We were all busy being hard-working in our youthful years. We were studying hard, working hard, getting married and buying a flat, and striving to give the best education to our children.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

The most difficult part for me is consistency when my schedule gets really busy, but working out every day is therapeutic.

I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

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 feel better when I'm working. I tend to not know who I am when I'm not working. That worries me a little bit... I've been fortunate to be so busy, but I haven't developed any other skills.

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.

Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

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.

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

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.

As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.

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

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 do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

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

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with a busy husband, a very demanding job and two little kids to feed.... I had to learn what it means to feed and care for your kids in a country where fast food is abundant, where time is a rarity, where eating out is a trend, because families are so busy.... Yes, I'm First Lady, but I know the struggles.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Behind the glossy hair and smart dresses you see on TV, this is who I am: a busy working mum like any other.

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 can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

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.

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.

I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

I'd rather be busy, working non-stop, than being bored at home, you know?

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

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.

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.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

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?

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.