Busy Quotes

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

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'm always busy. And I don't even see it really as work, because everything I do I still really enjoy.

I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.

I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.

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

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

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.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

I am busy with my work. My path is clear.

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

I have a ton of fun, I mean luckily I've been balancing a ton of projects for a lot of years now, and I'm better when I'm busy and I just do my job in a way where I really totally compartmentalize.

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 was always busy doing something, being an only child.

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

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'm one of those always busy type of people, so when there's a lull, I find something to fill it.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

'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.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

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.

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.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.