Top 1200 Busy Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

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

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.

It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

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?

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

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

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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.

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're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

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

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