Busy Quotes

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

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

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.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

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

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

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

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

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

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

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

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

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

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.