Top 1200 Busy Person Quotes & Sayings

A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

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 haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay 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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

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

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

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.

If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

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.

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.

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

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.

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

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

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.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

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.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I'm content because I'm a busy person.

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.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

I'm normally the least busy person I know.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.

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

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

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.

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.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

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

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

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

It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

I don't over-think my existence. I'm a very imperfect person, like most of us are. I'm also a very busy person. I have a family. I have a career. I'm a professor at NYU. I have a full life for which I feel grateful every day.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

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

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

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

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.