Top 1200 Busy Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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.

Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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

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.

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 am a fast cook. I have to be, as I am a busy person with many responsibilities and don't have a lot of time for cooking.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

I don't think you can run for president or be president unless you're a busy person.

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

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

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'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.

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

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

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 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 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.

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.'

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

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

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

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

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

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.

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

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

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.

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 have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

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.

'Are you guys busy?' Juniper asked. 'Well,' I said, 'we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.' 'We're not busy,' Annabeth said.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

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

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.

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.

Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

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.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.

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.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Life is crazy. You travel and you're busy and there's so much going on that it's important to have the moments where you can breathe and you can just be present with the person or the people that you're there with.

No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.