Top 1200 Being Busy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

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.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

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

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.

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

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

One of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it's over really crucial- you know, foundational issues.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy walking my dogs - actually not doing anything very constructive. I made one little solo album in my garage.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

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

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

We are usually very busy towards the end of the year, so I know that whenever we get super busy, it must be a sign that the year is ending.

I had an assistant for a hot minute, because that was offered to me. And literally, after a day I was like, "I don't like this. I don't like someone else making the decisions that I should be making." I'm very busy, yes, but I'm not so busy that I can't make my own decisions. I want people to contact me directly about what time I'm being picked up in the morning.

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

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

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

There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

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

I feel happy about being busiest model in the world. It's good to be busy.

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

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

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

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

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

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.

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

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

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

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

Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to feign the anonymity which I had before 'O.J.'

My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

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.

I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

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

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

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

I think being busy is a healthy thing.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!