Busy Quotes

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

You can really only enjoy life when youre extremely busy.

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.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Busy idleness urges us on.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

What happened? Satan was busy?

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

God's children should pray. They should cry day and night to Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

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.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

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

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.