Top 1200 Keep Busy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

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.

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.

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

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

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

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

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

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

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

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

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

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.

I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

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.

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I like to keep busy because it gives me a lot of balance and perspective.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

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.

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.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

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

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

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

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

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.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

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

The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

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

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.

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.

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 don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

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

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

I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on!

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

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

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?

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 gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

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.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

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