Top 1200 Busy Man Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never 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.

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.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

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

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

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

The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you’re going to find is a man who didn’t care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.

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

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

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.

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

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

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

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.

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.

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

To be busy is man's only happiness.

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.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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.

Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

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

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be 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.

My father's a very busy man.

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

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 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?

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.