Top 1200 Being Busy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

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

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

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

The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.

Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.

I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.

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.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

Everyone is busy, but I believe it depends on what you prioritize. My husband and I teach Sunday School together at our church and are very involved.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

I haven't been able to keep in touch with Anu Aggarwal. But Deepak Tijori was with me in 'Bigg Boss.' Very honestly, we all are busy.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

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

You know that if you come to WWE and want to maintain a certain level of success, you're going to be busy and gone a lot. It's part of the deal.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.