Top 1200 Busy Working Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

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

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

So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.

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

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

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.

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

I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it. No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.

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

Don't ever get too busy to listen and connect because if you let yourself get stuck in that cycle, what are you actually working for anyway?

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

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.

Sometimes people will sue me to make an example of me but I don't sit home worrying about it; I'm too busy working.

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.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

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

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

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

Few years ago, I was one of the busiest actresses in Sandalwood, working round the clock. I was so busy that my assistants had a tough time adjusting to my hectic schedule.

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.

When our schedules are busy, and we are working hard on the tasks immediately at hand, it can be difficult to see that big, potential breakthrough idea right in front of us, much less act on it.

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.

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.

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.

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 do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.

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.

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

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

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

While dam-busting Democrats are focusing on destroying water storage projects, I'm busy working on real solutions that put rural communities first.

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

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.

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

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

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

I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.

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

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.

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

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

I cut my hair like three times a week. Sometimes more if I'm working, and I know I got to be in front of people with interviews or TV or video. I've been blessed to be so busy.